apt-get install vcsh

I finally got around to package vcsh and David Bremner was kind enough to sponsor it. vcsh is available in testing, unstable, and squeeze-backports. Also, Ubuntu seems to have copied it over into their repositories automagically.

As you probably don't know, vcsh is a tool to manage config files in git. Say you want to maintain one repository for zsh, one for vim, one for ssh, one for mplayer, and one for mr, but obviously there can only be one .git in $HOME. vcsh helps by moving $GIT_DIR into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/repo.d/ but keeping $GIT_WORK_TREE in $HOME.

The splitting of configuration sets into separate repositories allows you avoid checking out, say, mplayer's config on your servers, or checking out your ssh config at work.

If this sounds complicated, it's not; vcsh hides all of the dirty details from you. vcsh integrates nicely with mr by means of a plugin, making handling your configurations even more trivial. If you do get stuck along the way, simply drop into #vcs-home on irc.oftc.net or send email to the vcs-home mailing list.

popcon tells me that there are more users than I know about directly, so pipe up if you're one of them. And if you are one of the people who have it installed but don't use it, I am even more interested. I would love to know why so I can improve it.

Long story short, if you care about the integrity and/or history of your configuration, or if you use one or more computers, you should definitely give vcsh a try.

Any kind of feedback appreciated :)