Blog – ShiftEleven

I got this tip from Jerry Jackson who told me about storing all of my configuration files, like .bash_profile or .vimrc, in an etc directory inside of my home directory. Once the files are in that directory, you could create a subversion repository; and inside of this repository, put the etc directory in that. Once the files are in a repository, you can check out that repository on any machine. Now you have a way to keep all of your config files easily in sync.

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First and foremost, this blog is for me. It’s kind of a collection of things that I’m learning and want to learn. So for me, I’m going to start with the basics of SVN(Subversion)

I first used CVS(Client Version System) and it does it’s job. There are somethings I wish that were easier. That’s where SVN comes in. A lot of the commands are the same. svn add or svn commit is not that much different from that of cvs add or cvs commit, unless you get to some of the other features.

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