From: John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Cc: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: OT: version control of .el files in NT Emacs
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 13:05:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOj2CQQboPk7GH-cFRBz30u09egMukZ2=pCU4UZRNwju2TeFAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2emxpon.fsf@gmail.com>
Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
Why not work with the files in the repos themselves? In other words, do
they really need to be in two different places?
If c:/Users/ADMIN isn't an appropriate place to keep a git repository,
you could override HOME to e.g. c:/Sivaram, and then create
c:/Sivaram/.emacs.d as a git repository.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-08 20:05 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 [this message]
2016-09-08 23:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
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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