Version Control Your Home Directory

Git is useful not only for working with software projects, but also for keeping a history of things in your home directory.  If you're on Linux, then I recommend putting your entire home directory under Git. And if you're on Windows, put the most appropriate directory under version control. At first this may sound a little off the wall. However, I am not recommending that you track everything.  In fact, I suggest that you very carefully pick and choose what you want to track.  This is what I did: after initializing the repository in my home directory, I opened the file .git/info/exclude and added this: # Ignore everything * Which tells Git to ignore everything in my home directory.  Then after that I added specific rules to un-ignore the files I was interested in.  You can do this by prefixing the filename with the '!' character.  For example: # Ignore everything * # But save my ...

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