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About

This wiki is dedicated to the use of version control systems (VCSs) as a backup system with a strong focus on backing up things like a home directory.

While he may not have been the first, he certainly inspired many to follow his lead, Joey Hess' original article.

A Tutorial on Keeping $HOME (or /etc) in Subversion.

Mailinglist

is here: http://lists.madduck.net/mailman/listinfo/vcs-home

Issues

• Organizing your repositories
• Auto Checkin - Telling the VCS system about new/deleted files/directories
• Dealing with permissions
  • Ken's permission and link-management script
  • Sylvan, a wrapper for subversion to handle permissions and file ownership.
  • svnmerge, Joey Hess' current script for merging several dotfile directories into one by symlinking.
• Dot files
  • There are certain dot files that tend to come into conflict just by programs "reading" (and updating various metadata in the process). Information about how to munge them to avoid false-positive conflicts.
• Multi-repositories
  • Ken's recursive commit script
  • Joey Hess' mr tool