I have been thinking about managing my Offpunk list files that I might be modifying on either, or both, my netbook and some main laptop. Since this is mostly about new parts that might have gotten added, I didn’t want to introduce some full-blown version control to this. Instead, I figured that I could start ensuring the files end with a time-specific marker when was the file last appended before sync that would also be useful to the human…
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Distributed file version management in 15 minutes of Bash
You don’t always need to have all the tools at your disposal, but you may want to have some way of checking in your file edits. CVS is too powerful and has a lot of unnecessary parts, while not being distributed. You may not need to keep everything in deltas. So why not just write…
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