Markus Teich <markus.teich_AT_stusta.mhn.de> writes:
> dropbox will break them. It calls unlink and create on every update.
>
> At the moment I am thinking about the GIT_DIR in $HOME/somthing/deeper
> and setting the GIT_WORK_TREE to $HOME after cloning, making backups
> of possibly already existing files and moving the cloned files to
> $HOME.
> Handling templated configfiles (you don't want your ssh hosts in the
> repo) seems to be a bit problematic though.
> Any other objections to this method?
I do it like that:
alias homedropbox="GIT_DIR=~/prj/dotfiles/.dropbox GIT_WORK_TREE=~ dropbox"
And then call "homedropbox commit" etc.
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Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen_AT_gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
Received on Sat Jun 08 2013 - 12:48:47 CEST