CVS $HOME

I've just read Joey Hess' description of his home directory. I of course knew for quite a while that he did this, but I never knew the specifics. Now I do. I've been meaning to try the same thing, but I have a slight problem:

wouter@rock:~$ ls|wc -l
623
wouter@rock:~$ du -sh .
7.0G    .
wouter@rock:~$ 

Right. My attempts at organizing my home directory have always failed in horrific ways for me, especially on rock, my primary workstation for the past four years. At least the disk usage has been reduced; there've been times when it was about 15G. Apparently, the most disk space is wasted in my debian/ directory (which makes sense, because it's where I do most of my work currently). Will have to clean that up before I can even begin to think about storing it in CVS, it seems; but that'll have to wait until I can get some other stuff done first (such as finishing the setup of western). And find the time to actually bring order to chaos, which will likely take ages.