Re: [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker

["Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> So today I decided to start hacking at a git-based but file-oriented
>> content tracker, which I decided to name Zit.
>
> This sounds great and would seem very useful to manage my ~/bin/
> directory which contains a set of unrelated one-file-tools that
> evolve over time.  I haven't played with it yet though.

Nice to see I wasn't the only one with such a need 8-)

>> when you choose to start tracking a file with Zit [...]
>> Zit will create a directory .zit.file to hold a git repository
>
> If you have many files you want to track in a single directory
> (like ~/bin/), all those additional directories will quickly feel
> like clutter.  If you track every file, it will even double the
> number of things you see with an "ls -a".

Ah, good point, I hadn't thought about that.

> If you decide against a shared repository, maybe you want to
> consider to not use ".zit.file/", but ".zit/file/" as the
> repository?  This would reduce the clutter to a single directory,
> just like with ".git".  And moving files around wouldn't be that
> much complicated.

Right. I'll give that a shot.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta