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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. Old news, good read by lastberserker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sorry to break you, but I was doing it (albeit on a smaller scale) for years ;-P Good reading though.

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    My other Beowulf cluster is... er...
  2. Not Innovative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Innovative? I don't think so. I would imagine that many people who are familiar with CVS are doing this.

    What's next? Keeping system configuration in CVS?