Re: Git Questions

["David Tweed" <david.tweed@gmail.com>]

> On Monday 2007 August 20, Tom Schinckel wrote:
>
> > The reason I want to do that is so I can set up blind commits that I can
> > add in a anacron job or something. The information about the files isn't
> > really important

Regarding your basic intention, I've worked on something _similar_
using git and put it up on the web (although not got around to editing
the git wiki) at

http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sis05dst/chronoversion.htm

(with a minor update is going to go up when 1.5.3 gets released & I
test it works.) There are two important differences with what you want
to do:

1. As I recall someone else saying when talking about using SCM
on their home directory (Joey Hess?), if you blanket record
everything you then end up being careful about, eg, piping a
grep search into a temporary file for some purpose, etc. So
chronoversion takes a python function that decides if a file
is "worth recording" (which can be by suffix or more general
analysis).

2. As I've got a nervous tick of saving every couple of minutes
(in case the editor or network I'm on dies), recording on save
is too fine a granularity for me, so the script is designed to
run from a cron job (I have it at once an hour) and not make
a commit if it finds nothing has changed.

As I say, not exactly what you're looking for but it might be
in the right direction.

-- 
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