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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. Innovative solution? by matt-fu · · Score: 0, Troll

    While this is a cool idea, it's not even remotely innovative. Can we please put up some kind of first year Unix user filter for story submissions?

  2. Just trying to sell more advertising by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 0, Troll

    And how the hell is this newsworthy? it's not...slashdot has once again gone a little further downhill in the quality of their news; this time so that we'll look at their new pretty banners and earn them double the cash every time we look at an article. now that slashdot is obviously heading in the commercial direction maybe someone ought to consider putting together a new geek news site?

  3. Re:Why just home? by mastropiero · · Score: 0, Troll
    Users can rollback to previous revisions of files

    Including the local copy of the Worm of The Week (TM), too! :)
  4. Yeah yeah yeah by macmurph · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was doing this with Perforce and OS 9 years ago...and I know others that did it long before me.

  5. nice tool ... by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can use it to roll back the wole system 5 to 9 times a day when some asshole discover yet another vulnerability on IIS and decides to 'test it on your server'.

    Or, when you install the new version of that stupid control panel, and it fucks your registry up ...

    Or when one some luser create a file called ' ? * * lpt1 prn' in an incoming directory, shure, just roll the changes back ...

    Good way to administrate a system, until this tool from the devil fucks up your registry, eats 90 MB of RAM, 20 % of CPU, and make you reinstall windoze after causing you 3 hours of downtime, Shure!, it's the best!! Keep creating such amazing software bill!.

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    WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
  6. troll by lerouxb · · Score: 0, Troll

    and one or two cool ideas made popular by debian in the 90s gives you the right to be a close-minded, elitist, gentoo basher?

    I use gentoo, but I realise that other distros also do/did cool things (especially debian - in many cases I would rather use it) and I don't mentally grep for their names and post hostile replies whenever I encounter them.