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Speakers
Richard Hartmann
Schedule
Day Saturday
Room Ferrer
Capacity 288
Start time 15:40
End time 15:55
Duration 00:15
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Track Lightning Talks
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Talk slides (slides)

vcsh - manage config files in $HOME via fake bare git repositories

fake bare git repositories done right

So you have your system set up to work perfectly. But moving to new machines, adding or changing configs etc is hard and takes way too much time. Thus, you hacked up a common CVS/SVN/Git/whatever repository and soft-link into $HOME. There is a better way and it's called vcsh.

I will demonstrate, in order:

  • the need for config management
  • how fake bare git repos work
  • what vcsh can do
  • show a demo
  • take questions if I have time

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When Event Track
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