Using Git to Make Backups

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Maf. King<maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 July 2009 10:29:07 Ian Barton wrote:
>> Also I would like to keep all my gnucash data, including config files in
>> one place. Is symlinking .gnucash to ~/MyData/gnucash likely to cause
>> any problems?
>>
>
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> Can't help with the git stuff, but I think that your symlink idea will lead to
> Bad Things Happening.
>
> GC is known to occasionally trash "unexpected" files that are in ~/.gnucash,
> it is reccomended by the devs that the config is kept separate from the data
> files.
>
> Symlinking to ~/MyData/gnucash/config-dir/ may work, though.
>

I have been symlinking the .gnucash directory to a non-hidden
directory for awhile now for ease of backups. HOWEVER I have been very
careful not to put data files into it...