#awesome-vcs

A curated list of awesome version control libraries.

I like to keep everything under version control. This is a list of utilities that allow you to do that.

DNS

• clouddns (Cloudfront)
• namesync (cloudflare)

Configuration

• etckeeper

Passwords

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/559611/password-storage-in-source-control
• John Resig's blog post
• pass, standard unix password manager (encrypt, then commit)
• ansible-vault encrypted storage for ansible

Dotfiles

• https://dotfiles.github.io/
• Arch Wiki Guide
• gnu stow

Vim

• http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2012/03/12/putting-your-vim-files-under-version-control/

Media

• Git Large File Storage

Encrypted Storage

• HN Thread for blackbox, with various alternatives suggested
• git-crypt - git-crypt enables transparent encryption and decryption of files in a git repository
• Blog post on git-crypt
• transcrypt - transparently encrypt files within a git repository
• blackbox - use decryption keys per user, meaning that there is no single shared password
• git-encrypt - Slightly older technique

Designers

• pixelapse - Visual version control and collaboration workflow
• Adobe Version Cue - Blog post explaining version control to designers

Music

• lilypond - version control for sheet music. Think Latex for sheet music
• tunemachine - Version control for spotify playlists.

Database

• Jeff Atwood's blog post

Backups

• bup - Very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images)