From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) Subject: Re: automatically follow symlink to other folder when loading agenda Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:05:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878uewg9za.fsf@yale.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56559) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXYSs-0002iq-Ki for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:06:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXYSp-0004vx-Cs for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:06:06 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40887) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXYSp-0004vo-21 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:06:03 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YXYSl-0001xH-1G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:05:59 +0100 Received: from 169.15.136.127 ([169.15.136.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:05:59 +0100 Received: from dboyd2 by 169.15.136.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:05:59 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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