Re: [dev] suckless dotfiles approach

From: William Giokas <1007380_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 14:04:49 -0500

On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Łukasz Gruner wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013, at 14:24, Markus Teich wrote:
> > Please, enlighten me!
> >
> > --Markus
> >
> >
> > Am 08.06.2013 13:18, schrieb Łukasz Gruner:
> > > you might use a real version control instead of git.
> >
>
> not having any particular one in mind, just one that behaves properly,
> git is not yet ready to be used as a general version control, as it has
> no proper user-facing api.

I'm unsure where you are getting this from...

>
> Anyway,
> my setup for this task (not saying it is suckless, just that it works
> for me) involves:
> - a set of dirs for different file types (ie. dot/ for files which
> whilst linking will be prefixed with a dot, bin/ for compiled stuff)
> - makefile which does the hardlinking, compiling etc

Actually quite a good idea, I must say.

> - a set of mercurial subrepos (ie, dwm is mercurial subrepo thanks to
> hg-git extension, and my own patchqueue for dwm is a subrepo parallel to
> dwm - makefile understands how to deal with them)
>
> All the editable files are getting hardlinked and dirs - ie. ~/.vim/ -
> are created. Binary files are copied. There is no automagical adding of
> dotfiles to the repo.

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