[kwlug-disc] etckeeper, and not - prepping for the day I inevitably shoot myself in the foot?

[B.S.]

 > The main git site does have a list of GUIs too. Some free some paid:
 > https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis

Thanks. Yes, I came across that as part of composing the OP. (Which led 
me to git-gui, gitk, and tig, and thus a baseline from which to evaluate 
functional enhancements provided by those clients. Including a test of 
git-gui running locally against a remote's sshfs.) It was running tig 
over ssh (thus being reminded how much I don't remember about git), that 
made me ask about file browsers that inherently understand git / file 
versioning.

 > And there is also have a list of other similar projects for syncing
 > git repos ...

Wasn't intending to sync anywhere, nor connect or be connectable 
elsewhere. Seems like 'git init' provides local file versioning, and 
seems the easiest way of getting there.

i.e. Someone else landing in a directory and seeing .git present would 
inherently be able to roll with it. vs Having to know 'something' was 
present, how to access it, and so on. e.g. Presence/lack of backups, 
where they're stored, recovery cmdlines, and so on.

Thoughts welcome.


On 04/10/2017 05:24 PM, Andrew Sullivan Cant wrote:
> On 10/04/17 16:57, B.S. wrote:
>> I think perhaps questions / issues have been mixed.
>>
>> (1) It seems reasonable in some cases to have a version history of files
>> in a directory. A reasonable way to do so seems to be some fashion of
>> 'git init ; cd favdir ; while true ; git -am add ; git commit; sleep
>> 24hours ; done;'
>
> I help maintain a project which automatically commits git repositories
> as they are changed:
> * https://github.com/nesquena/gitdocs
>
>
> And there is also have a list of other similar projects for syncing git
> repos in the README, if gitdocs itself does not seem quite right:
> * https://github.com/nesquena/gitdocs#prior-projects
>
>>
>> So, 'git init' in any directory reasonable. Favourite git gui browsers?
>> (Did find tig for ncurses. Interesting, but my git knowledge is in cold
>> storage at the moment.)
>
> The main git site does have a list of GUIs too. Some free some paid:
> https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis