Subversion Your What Now?

Been reading on people adding their home directories to Subversion.

I'm still scratching my head over this one. Currently I zip up the config files that I want to keep backed up and store them on my personal server. I don't quite get why someone would have the need to subversion their home directory for config purposes. Well I take that back, I suppose if someone wanted to distribute their settings out to a ton of people yeah they could do that. For example a .bashrc file that you want all of your students in a class, or all of your coworkers to have the same functions etc. Yeah I could see where that could be useful. But for day to day things? I don't see a need for it.

Of course it could change someday, but for now. Nope.