Re: OT: version control of .el files in NT Emacs

[Óscar Fuentes]

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

> What's the best way to back up/version control my .Emacs and .el files
> that are bog deep in some userprofile folder like
>
> c:/Users/ADMIN/AppData/Roaming
>
> I have git and cygwin installed.  Ideally, I'd like to replicate the
> changes into C:/Sivaram/repos everytime I tinker with the files in the
> HOME.
>
> I could do a shell script and cp the files over and add it to the
> other repo but that's a drag and I'm likely to forget to do it
> regularly.

In HOME put an .emacs file with a single line:

(load "c:/Sivaram/repos/your_el_repo/emacs.el")

where your_el_repo contains your Emacs-related files and emacs.el
contains whatever you now have in %HOME%/.emacs.