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[Orgmode] Re: Request for suggestions: multiple revision control systems


From: Robert P. Goldman
Subject: [Orgmode] Re: Request for suggestions: multiple revision control systems/repositories + org
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:46:30 -0600

That is what I had done originally, but I thought mobile org required that all 
the org files be in the same directory. Was I wrong about that?

Thanks,
R

"Bernt Hansen" <address@hidden> wrote:

>Robert Goldman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I am looking for hints.  I have a number of org files, typically one
>for
>> each major project plus two or three for my personal life.
>>
>> These must often live in different revision control systems: my work
>> projects, in particular, have different repositories; I have a main
>set
>> of org files for work in ~/org/, tracked by my employers' svn;
>> occasionally, I do something outside, like work on a paper with
>someone
>> outside my company in a dedicated git repo; and I'd like to stuff my
>> personal materials off in a git repo of my own.
>>
>> I have been pulling all of these together into my ~/org directory,
>using
>> symbolic links, for the benefit of mobile org.  That is, my ~/org
>> directory has my main work org files, plus links to a bunch of
>others.
>>
>> That works well for syncing with mobile org.  Unfortunately, it's a
>mess
>> for Emacs's version control mode.  VC mode sees the .svn directory in
>> that place, and can handle the local files, but gets horribly
>confused
>> by the sym-linked files.
>>
>> Anyone have a similar need to gather together a mess of org files,
>and
>> have a cleaner solution?
>>
>> Extra credit if you have a way of creating the same set of symlinks
>on
>> more than one machine! ;-)
>
>How about keeping the separate projects in separate repositories and
>just add the files from those multiple projects to your
>org-agenda-files
>variable?
>
>Then you see a consolidated view of multiple org projects (and the
>files
>that contribute to that view can be individually set per machine - you
>don't need all projects for all machines - but any repositories that
>are
>available can contribute to your agenda.
>
>Each of the projects are completely independent and don't need to know
>about each other - just the org-agenda-files variable pulls them into
>your agenda view.
>
>Regards,
>Bernt

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