adding my entire home dir with a "bzr init ~/"

[Matt Nordhoff]

Rahul Nabar wrote:
> I've the bazar and .bzrignore setup just like you guys indicated.
> Works well until.....
> 
> I faintly remember that one of the things Bazaar does better than cvs
> / svn is that it tracks the file / directory metainfo (or not!?).
> Well, now I've a ~/.vim folder where from time to time I install new
> plugins, syntax, scripts etc. Unfortunately once in a while one of
> them doesn't behave well and then one needs a rollback. (note that
> this is not trying to version changes to a specific script but rather
> remembering what script was added when)
> 
> My intention was to do bazaar commits before adding each new plugin to
> hopefully retain snapshots that'd allow me to figure out what files
> needed to be rolled back. Whats the best way to do this?
> 
> I mean right now  a "bzr inventory" does show: ~/.vim listed. But I
> just copied a new plugin into that dir. and tried to do a 'bzr commit
> ~/.vim' but it complained:
> 
> ****************************************
> Committing to: /home/xxxxxusername/
> bzr: ERROR: no changes to commit. use --unchanged to commit anyhow
> ******************************************
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Any tips?
> 
> 
> -Rahul

You'll need to "bzr add" any new files. Unfortunately, thanks to
ignoring *, you'll have to add each file specifically, instead of just
the directories they're in.
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