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Version control for your Home Directory

Submitted by bdillahu on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 20:48

There is a sub-group of version control users (a growing group, I believe) that manage their entire home directory in a version control system. There are several arguments for this use, and I have played with it off and on, but never really "moved in" all the way. I'm probably getting closer to the day.

Other people use version control for their /etc directory on Linux boxes. /etc holds much of the common configuration files on many Unix based distributions, and being able to "go back" to a previous configuration can be really handy.

Diving into Git

Submitted by bdillahu on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 22:16

In our trend of git articles... Diving into Git is a good writeup by a "new to git" user who is jumping into the deep end.

Git Magic

Submitted by bdillahu on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 19:40

If you are looking for a well written "how-to" type document on Git, make sure and check out the Git Magic site. Well written and geared toward someone who is familiar with version control but not necessarily git, I found it a very useful read.

The Thing About Git

Submitted by bdillahu on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 22:30

The Thing about Git

On my "git" theme, I wanted to point out this great article. Some indepth but understandable coverage of the "hot new thing" in version control. A well thought out, well implemented version control system is more powerful than you thought.

Version Control

Submitted by bdillahu on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 22:22

If you haven't used version control software before, you should try it. It's not just for software development any more. As an example, I keep my Firefox and Thunderbird profiles in version control Then I can pull and push them from other machines, keeping things in sync with "home" whenever I want. Since it's versioned, if something gets corrupted or some new plugin causes a problem, I can just revert. It has worked very well.

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