I want to store all my dotfiles in git repository with separate branch for each machine. I have a problem I can't solve that blocks me from using git for that purpose. I'd like to know how other pe...

There are two Ruby projects I am currently working on which have both a .rvmrc and a .ruby-version file in their root dir. I use rvm to manage my Ruby versions in my local development environment, ...

Is there any way to get ack to search through a file whose filename starts with a . (e.g. .htaccess), without resorting to the --all or --unrestricted options? I've tried adding the following to m...

Do dotfiles, such as .htaccess .gitignore and .config, have a file extension and no filename or are they considered to have a filename and no extension? I'm trying to implement some utility func...

I have a number of "dot" files in my home directory that I'd like to track with git - e.g. .pryrc, .zshrc, etc. I want to have a remote repository for these files so that a) there is an easy way to...

I've been thinking about a way to deploy configurations on a linux system, Specifically dotfiles. I would really like to somehow compile all the dotfiles into one executable that, when executed, d...

I'm confused about what's the correct way to ignore the contents of a directory in git. Assume I have the following directory structure: my_project |--www |--1.txt |--2.txt |--.gitignore ...

Is there a free (as in "cheers"), linux-compatible, interactive visual editor for graphviz or other graphs? aptitude seems to be drawing a blank. edit: "cheers" means both "beer" and "speech...

My objective is to call ipython, while also logging all input/output to IPython, and see something like: stu@stumac ~ $ ipython In [1]: exit stu@stumac ~ $ The banner can be easily removed if I...

I want to keep my Vim and Emacs configurations under version control, but I don't want my entire home folder there (or rather, I do, but there should be 3 separate repositories). With Emacs it's ea...

I have a folder with some dotfiles I would like to make symlinks for. I cannot see an easy way to do this. ls -a ~/dotfiles will include the dotfiles, but also . and .. find ~/dotfiles -maxdepth ...

Most config files are ini files (format: name=value\n). Is there any documentation or an article/guideline on this matter. Or is anyone supposed to keep close to this format on good will?

I want to keep my main .hgrc in revision control, because I have a fair amount of customization it in, but I want to have different author names depending on which machine I'm using (work, home, &a...

I'd like to build a graph showing which tags are used as children of which other tags in a given XML document. I've written this function to get the unique set of child tags for a given tag in an ...

In a directory with mixed content such as: .afile .anotherfile bfile.file bnotherfile.file .afolder/ .anotherfolder/ bfolder/ bnotherfolder/ How would you catch everything but the files (not dir...

A little background: I use PowerShell on windows xp at work and I set a bunch of useful shortcuts in Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 in My Documents, trying to emulate Mac environment inspired by...

Scenario: I'm trying to get my unix dot-files under git. I have to work between (at least) the cygwin environment and some standard linux distros (ubuntu and opensuse), and I have files/lines of co...