Wiki Updates

[Ken Bloom]

On Friday 11 May 2007 04:51:38 pm Kevin T. Neely wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:53:42PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote:
> > --- "Kevin T. Neely" <ktneely at astroturfgarden.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I guess my only problem is how to do this gracefully
> > > with my current setup which is my $HOME with some
> > > svn:externals pointing to the source tree, work
> > > tree, and personal tree...
> >
> > What I am beginning to do is something like this,
> > create a repository called 'layout', use this
> > repository to organize different views and not really
> > any actual files.  Something like this:
> >
> > layout/home/work
> >            /home
> >            /guest
> >            ...
>
> <snip>
>
> > This way, at work in your home directory you would
> > checkout:
> >
> >   svn:...layout/home/work
> >
> > which may then contain externals such as:
> >
> >  ...music/
>
> This is pretty much what I am thinking, as well.  I went to actually
> implement this, and ran into a problem.  When I propedit the
> svn:externals, I cannot do something like:
>
> . svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/home
>
> where home is a repository of what i want to appear in $HOME.  I
> suppose I could pop up to /home on the client machine and edit the
> properties like
>
> username svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/home
>
> but that is weird as I would essentially be working outside of my
> home dir.
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
> K

That's what various kinds of svnfix scripts are all about, the goal 
being that you stick this stuff in another externals directory and 
symlink it into place. So you create

.common_dotfiles svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/home

and have the script make symlinks like
.foo -> .common_dotfiles/foo
.bar -> .common_dotfiles/bar

My svnfix script on the wiki may be helpful here, or you may want a more 
automatic way of discovering what should be symlinked.

(Heck, call it ~/etc instead of ~/.common_dotfiles and you've started on 
your way to building a feature of home directory organization that lots 
of people want.)

Personally, I don't see much reason to use externals. I just check out a 
common base home directory, and then check out the subdirectories I 
want on an ad-hoc basis. Then again, I don't go logging in to new 
machines a whole lot.

--Ken

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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