This is the spiffy homepage for the vcs-home group. We try to figure out how to use version control systems to manage your documents. This includes topics such as backups and anything else related you might think of.

We are mostly a mailing list for now. Please join and post your thoughts. There is also #vcs-home/irc.oftc.net if you want to chat.

And this is a wiki, meaning you can/should/are allowed to edit it!

Links

Conceptual stuff:

• Article on how Joey Hess uses (used) Subversion to maintain his home directory

Approaches:

• How madduck versions his ~ with Git, and an earlier article explaining how he manages the whole thing.

Tools:

• Manpage of the git-home-history tool
• Article about gibak, a Git-based backup system (see also Debian RFP)
• mr, a tool to manage a collection of repositories
• etckeeper, a Git-based approach to maintaining /etc
• Article comparing SVN, Mercurial and Git for home directory management