Like many people, I manage a lot of my dotfiles via a version control repository (Mercurial on Bitbucket, private, in my case). This is handy when setting up a new machine or propagating configurations among different machines.
So naturally I added my .emacs
and .emacs.d
to this setup.
Then I installed some packages, and ended up adding *.elc
to my .hgignore
, just like I omit *.pyc
files from my Python repos.
Are there other things I shouldn't be tracking, e.g. generated files that are environment specific and won't be useful/correct when cloned to another platform? (I use Linux and OS X on the desktop, and FreeBSD on the server.)
Are there any setup tricks that are commonly used to make this kind of sharing more valuable? With my shell file setup I'm still looking for good ways to cherry-pick individual files across branches for example.
*.elc
. stackoverflow.com/a/24539894/324105