What is git-home

The basic aim of git-home is to automate task when keeping a whole home directory in git repositories. The first motivation for git-home comes from Joey Hess' cvshome (formerly svnhome) and the second one from Jean-François Richard's git-home-history.

Features

Obviously as git-home is a git porcelain (aka front-end) all git operations are supported calling appropriate command.

Special features related to git-home:

• Manage all home directory in several modules.
• Move a file from a module to an other.
• Commit / update / pull all modules in once.
• List all modification done for each module.
• Per-module full configuration (URL, path, fix, commit, update...)
• All permissions are backed up too.
• Upload to a secured host.
• Host-shared modules.

See the tutorial and the manual for more information.

Known limitations

• A file name cannot contain character \000 (this is a awk and bash limitation.