From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Out-of-control backups! Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:53:52 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87ppfwfmjj.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87wqafnreh.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <4a9b74f4-a4c5-40fc-93a7-071a2f86eb18@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408467327 27581 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2014 16:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:55:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 19 18:55:19 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 1XJmgn-00082i-Us for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJmgn-0005DP-Du for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:55:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!news.snarked.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: P0uMB9BthHuWo8+BJXB4Mw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ap+3MZEYrHCFvtEG+jBoLy5tyKQ= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207026 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:99303 Archived-At: Rusi 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? -- underground experts united