[darcs-users] Symbolic Links or a different idea?

[Henning Thielemann]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Jamie Webb wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 05:07:36PM -0400, Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> > Greetings.
> > 
> > I am now using darcs on three projects and would like to migrate another
> > to it, dot_files :) ... As a unix user, I have many valuable dot files
> > that I do not want to loose, but they are in my home directory. My idea
> > was to simply create a directory ~/develop/dot_files and then make some
> > symlinks:
> > 
> > ln -s ~/.emacs dot_emacs
> > ln -s ~/.elisp dot_elisp
> > ln -s ~/.xinitrc dot_xinitrc
> 
> Make the symlinks the other way round, i.e. have the actual files in
> your repo, and the symlinks in your home dir. Works beautifully for me
> with Unison.

I also handle it this way with CVS and it works well so far.