From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: OT: version control of .el files in NT Emacs Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:02:40 +0530 Message-ID: <87k2emxpon.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1473363966 8367 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2016 19:46:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 19:46:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130015 (Ma Gnus v0.15) Emacs/24.4 (windows-nt) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 08 21:46:02 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bi5Gp-0001Rv-F2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 21:45:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bi5Gn-00040R-CI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:45:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53207) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bi3CE-0006Q6-OT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:33:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bi3CB-00067Q-2c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:33:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38672 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bi3CA-00065a-Sj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bi3Bt-0003Il-LY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:32:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZmF9OnsN0M6kB0FzTx7N9u0M7fs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:11:46 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111315 Archived-At: 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. sivaram --