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From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: automatically follow symlink to other folder when loading agenda
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:05:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gjubmw3c27ps.fsf@W0144758.usac.mmm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878uewg9za.fsf@yale.edu

jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes:

> J. David Boyd writes:
>
>> I have 4 files I use for work in my main org folder.  And I have 
>> a personal.org in another folder, that is inside of Dropbox. 
>> 
>> I created a symlink to personal.org in my main org folder. When 
>> I start emacs and load the agenda, it asks me 
>> 
>> Symbolic link to Git-controlled source file; follow link? (y or 
>> n) 
>> 
>> Is there some setting (that I can't seem to find) that will 
>> always just allow this, rather than querying me?
>  
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>   (setq vc-follow-symlinks t)
> #+END_SRC
>
> BTW, I think that using dropbox in a git controlled directory 
> might not be a good idea: if there are conflicts of files inside 
> of the .git directory between two machines, you will never notice 
> them because dropbox doesn't report them, so the actual git repos 
> might be different between the two machines. I you are using git, 
> why don't you clone the main org directory in the other machine 
> and pull changes when you use the other machine?
>
> Best,


Thanks for the warning.  Git is actually going to go away on a few of those
folders.  I was using that to keep synced between a few linux machines, but am
going to use dropbox instead.  I don't need the level of versioning that git
provides for the few config files and org files that I have there.

Dave

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-16 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-16 16:05 automatically follow symlink to other folder when loading agenda J. David Boyd
2015-03-16 16:38 ` Ken Mankoff
2015-03-16 17:06   ` J. David Boyd
2015-03-16 16:53 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-03-16 17:05   ` J. David Boyd [this message]
2015-03-16 17:34     ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-03-16 19:48       ` J. David Boyd

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