For a long time, I’ve had a directory ~/templates to store template files
for several programs.
For historical reasons, my LaTeX templates have been stored under
~/latex/templates.
Both have been under git revision control since 2006; before that I used
rcs.
I want to merge both local repositories under ~/templates.
This articla documents how that was done.
Before the rise of git, I used rcs as my version control system.
Because I want to standardize on git, I am slowly converting old repositories.
In this article, as an example, I’ll be converting my old perl scripts in
~/src/perl.
By accident I checked 60-odd full-size photographs into the git history of my
website. I shrunk them in a next commit, but the history was still there
leading to a bloated .git directory. This took a lot of time when making
backups. This documents how I cleaned up this mess.
Since I am in the process of making most of my programs available on github, I have been re-shuffling the some git repositories. Especially my collection of scripts (small programs for different purposes). Because some of those scripts are private, I don’t want to publish that repository as a whole.
Some of the scripts in my scripts directory are private because they
contain personally identifying or security relevant information, or are just
not useful for others without modifications.
So I decided not to publish it on github as-is, but to make a private repo for
scripts that are not for general use.
One of the things I liked about the old rcs revision control system was that it supported keyword expansion in …
This article contains a list of things I do to set up a new git
repository.
This shell-script makes a backup (with the tar program) of the directory from which it is called, with all its …
This scripts looks for all directories in the users’ home directory that are managed by the git revision control system …
Configuration files for UNIX-like systems and the programs that run on them are usually plain text files. They tend …