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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT: version control of .el files in NT Emacs
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 01:03:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871t0u0zau.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k2emxpon.fsf@gmail.com

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

> What's the best way to back up/version control my .Emacs and .el files
> that are bog deep in some userprofile folder like
>
> c:/Users/ADMIN/AppData/Roaming
>
> I have git and cygwin installed.  Ideally, I'd like to replicate the
> changes into C:/Sivaram/repos everytime I tinker with the files in the
> HOME.
>
> I could do a shell script and cp the files over and add it to the
> other repo but that's a drag and I'm likely to forget to do it
> regularly.

In HOME put an .emacs file with a single line:

(load "c:/Sivaram/repos/your_el_repo/emacs.el")

where your_el_repo contains your Emacs-related files and emacs.el
contains whatever you now have in %HOME%/.emacs.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-08 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-08 17:32 OT: version control of .el files in NT Emacs Sivaram Neelakantan
2016-09-08 20:05 ` John Mastro
2016-09-08 23:03 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2016-09-09  4:50   ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2016-09-09  7:38     ` tomas
2016-09-09 14:53       ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2016-09-09 15:24     ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-09-10  4:57       ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2016-09-10 12:52         ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-09-10 14:04           ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2016-09-10 23:01             ` Óscar Fuentes

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