"Alexander Gladysh" <agladysh@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I thought to construct my repo of the number of symlinks to other > places, but apparently Git does not follow any simlinks. Hope so, I use this feature, for example to manage my debian alternatives. > Please give me some directions on the building such dumb backup > system I want :) I use "reverse" symlinks: the files i want to manage are replaced by symlink to the file that is in then git repository: my home contain: .abbrev_defs -> .myconfig/abbrev_defs .bash_logout -> .myconfig/bash_logout .bash_profile -> .myconfig/bash_profile .bashrc -> .myconfig/bashrc .custom -> .myconfig/custom .dircolors -> .myconfig/dircolors .emacs -> .myconfig/emacs .gnomerc -> .myconfig/gnomerc .gnus -> .myconfig/gnus .irssi -> .myconfig/irssi/ .profile -> .myconfig/profile .ScrollZ -> .myconfig/ScrollZ/ .scrollzrc -> .myconfig/scrollzrc .xchat2 -> .myconfig/xchat2/ and a .myconfig git repository that manage those file. -- Rémi Vanicat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html