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Home Directory In CVS

Posted by timothy on from the good-ideas dept.

shamir_k writes "Joey Hess has come up with an innovative solution to a problem we have all faced. He's put his whole home directory in CVS. Not only can he move between multiple computers easily, he also has automatic distributed backups."

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  1. Re:Why just home? by Jellybob · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'll get modded down to oblivion for mentioning an MS product in a positive light, but Windows XP+2003 Server supports this already.

    Users can rollback to previous revisions of files that they've saved to the 2k3 server, saving the sysadmins the time of restoring *another* accidently deleted file from the backup tapes.

  2. Re:Or just RCS by pHDNgell · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have a script that does all of this for me:

    http://bleu.west.spy.net/~dustin/soft/filemonitor

    You point it at a dir and run it from cron nightly. It also gives you a handy nightly mail telling you what changed. Excellent for those late night changes to systems where you don't remember what you did...or if someone else made some late night changes that you'd like to undo.

    --
    -- The world is watching America, and America is watching TV.
  3. kinda old article; update by joey · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not sure why something that I wrote in 2001 and that appeared in print media in 2002 is news.
    This is the second time I've been slashdotted for something over 1 year old this year. Previously it was the pkg-comp page, which I wrote circa 1998.
    Kinda makes you wonder.

    Anyway..

    I suppose I should mention that these days I keep most of my home directory in subversion. I have not gotten around to writing a successor to this article yet, but it works even better than cvs, and that's probably the most common question people ask me about this article these days.

    --
    see shy jo
  4. Re:CVS, eh? by vslashg · · Score: 5, Informative

    I agree that Perforce is awesome. But here's something you may not know -- Perforce is completely free for the kind of thing this article is talking about doing.

    Specifically, Perforce is available for download here. Without a license, it only supports two users and two clientspecs... not enough to manage a project shared among developers, but wonderful for managing your code in home projects. More good news: Perforce is free-as-in-beer for use in developing open source projects.

    (This isn't meant as a holy war... I know that many of you might think that source control package Foo is better than Perforce. You may be right. I'm just pointing out some Perforce licensing facts for those who like Perforce.)

  5. The comments say he uses subversion now by Polo · · Score: 5, Informative
    Did you see his followup reply at the bottom??
    Re: CVS homedir (Score: 0)
    by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 11, 2003
    I suppose I should mention that these days I keep most of my home directory in subversion. I have not gotten around to writing a successor to this article yet, but it works even better than cvs, and that's probably the most common question people ask me about this article these days.

    -- Joey Hess
  6. Old news by whereiswaldo · · Score: 5, Informative


    This was featured in a Linux Journal article from September 2002:

    http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5976

    Same guy, too.

  7. Re:My favorite directory to put in CVS by inferno0069 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Where do you think Gentoo got this from?

    Debian.