From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Out-of-control backups! Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:20:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2bv1y2k.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> References: <87wqafnreh.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <4a9b74f4-a4c5-40fc-93a7-071a2f86eb18@googlegroups.com> <87ppfwfmjj.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408515685 20764 80.91.229.3 (20 Aug 2014 06:21:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:21:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 20 08:21:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XJzGn-0005Os-Sp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:21:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54184 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJzGn-00063j-90 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 02:21:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33259) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJzGX-00063E-9O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 02:21:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJzGR-0003Ab-7R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 02:21:01 -0400 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]:55793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJzGR-0003AW-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 02:20:55 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BD91A84FA for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:20:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0URAwhmfq6Zy for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:20:53 +0200 (CEST) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender noch tsdh@gnu.org Original-Received: from thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org (dhcp72.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.71.72]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB5281A84F8 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:20:53 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87ppfwfmjj.fsf@debian.uxu> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:53:52 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 141.26.64.15 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99313 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: >> More seriously, yes configs in a VCS is a good idea >> but as yet very emergent; not at all 'standard >> practice' > > It may be a lousy idea as well to bring in all that > bulky overhead. It is just a bunch of files. Your whole > system is a bunch of files. Why don't we VCS that as > well and be done with it? So we can spend our lives > fiddling with overhead, "management" software and draw > UML boxes on whiteboards and have meetings so we never > have to actually write that scary code? Well, config files (especially the allmighty ~/.emacs and ~/.gnus.el) might be worth the extra management effort. At least I don't want to lose them when my harddrive passes away. Of course, you could make backups (to external drives). But as far as I'm concerned, I know I won't do that regularly if at all. Bye, Tassilo