Re: backups with git and inotify

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

On Dec 11, 2007 10:25 AM, Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:57:46PM +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> > On 2007.12.10 20:29:11 +0000, Luciano Rocha wrote:
> FWIW, I also think that trying to keep a coherent stat with automatic
> commits isn't possible. As for the temporary, unneeded files, a
> exclusion pattern will suffice, and using .git directly, instead of a
> (FUSE) filesystem, will allow permanent storage of those temporary
> files, until explicitly removed.

As a data point, I find it easier for my work to have rules that
specify the files you DO want to keep. (I actually have a set of
common suffixes to ignore that's checked first but purely for
efficiency: it's quicker to throw out the usual suspects like *~, *.o,
*.pyc, etc, immediately rather than fail to match all the more
complicated "keep this" rules every single time.) One advantage of
this is that if I do something stupid like drop a 2G video file into
the tracked tree it's doesn't get sucked in to the git repo.

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