Re: [Feature request] org-backup

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>]

Hi Dan,

I don't think I understood -- AFAIK, git repos are per directory and I
can't add something from another directory to it ?

Symlinking could be a possibility, like keeping everything inside
~/org and symlink to another dirs.

Cheers,

Marcelo.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> wrote:
> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Dan!
>>
>> I already do this, but sometimes the files are spread around *many*
>> directories. I.e, the model of having everything in a
>> version-controlled directory is unpractical, so that's why I think it
>> would be useful.
>
> A couple of possibilities:
>
> A git repo doesn't have to be limited to a single directory. You could
> have a git repo in your home directory, and git add org files, wherever
> they may be located using a command something like
> find . -type f -name '*.org' -exec git add '{}' \;
>
> You could use symlinks where posible, so that your org files are all in
> one directory, and project directories contain symlinks to those org
> files.
>
> Dan
>
>>
>> Marcelo.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> Although I try to keep all my org files inside a ~/org directory, I
>>>> often find myself creating org files outside of this directory
>>>> context, for example, as a bucket for a new project I'm working on, to
>>>> keep notes, todos, etc.
>>>>
>>>> It'd be nice if we had a org-backup function that would fetch all
>>>> files from the agenda + linked files and create a compressed backup of
>>>> them. What do you think?
>>>
>>> Hi Marcelo,
>>>
>>> I think backing up text files is a job for other tools; not emacs. I'd
>>> recommend using a version control tool such as git for this.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Marcelo.
>>>>
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