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diff --git a/man/7/caretaker.pod b/man/7/caretaker.pod index e59b533..37ad1ac 100644 --- a/man/7/caretaker.pod +++ b/man/7/caretaker.pod @@ -6,15 +6,22 @@ caretaker - distributed dotfile and script manager, package format (if you prefer technical infos over historical blah-blah, skip this section) -Actually, caretaker is just a pimped dotfile manager, which just happens to support -a sort of packages, version control, automatic sym- and hardlinking, and which -can also handle scripts and binaries. Oh, and it can cause serious brain damage. - -It evolved from two hg repos for ~/bin and ~/etc and some management scripts, -and now it can handle as many git repos as you want, which may contain -basically anything you can think of - you can even store movies in them. -(Of course that would be completely braindead, but hey - -you could, if you wanted to) +Actually, caretaker is just a dotfile manager, which however happens to support +a sort of packages, version control, automatic sym- and hardlinking, and +can also handle scripts and binaries. + +It evolved from two hg repos for ~/bin and ~/etc and some management scripts. +They served their purpose well, but at some point I decided that it'd be nice +to only have the dotfiles/scripts actually used on a host. +So I needed separate repositories for zsh configs, Xorg configs, etc. +Managing them would probably be a little more work than previously, so it was +time to write a script for that purpose, which is now called B<caretaker>. +It can handle as many git repos as you want, which may contain +basically anything you can think of - you can even store movies in them, if +you're up to that sort of weird VCS abuse ;-) + +I myself use caretaker with repos containing various dotfiles and scripts +/ binaries. =head1 THE BASICS |