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What's the benefit of this compared to rsync or scp $hostname:.config/<TAB>? I put my whole home folder in git and that has its benefits (being able to see cha

by xk3 1y ago

What's the benefit of this compared to rsync or scp $hostname:.config/<TAB>? I put my whole home folder in git and that has its benefits (being able to see changes to files as they happen) but if I'm just copying a file or two of config I'll just cat or scp it--introducing git seems needlessly complex if the branches are divergent

lloeki 1y ago
> just a file or two I don't have to remember which to copy > rsync or scp I don't have to remember which is most recent, nir even assume that "most recent" is a thing (i.e nonlinear) It's all just: - a git fetch --all away to get - a git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all to find out who's where and when - diff and whatchanged for contents if needed - a cherry-pick / rebase away to get what I want, complete with automatic conflict resolution I can also have local experiments in local topic branches, things I want to try out but not necessarily commit to across all of my machines yet.