$HOME

wouter@rock:~$ ls
code  data  debian  Desktop  scratch
wouter@rock:~$ ls -ad .svn/
.svn/
wouter@rock:~$

Does this mean I wasted days cleaning up my $HOME since last time I pondered doing this? No.

wouter@rock:~/scratch$ svn pg svn:ignore
*

wouter@rock:~/scratch$ ls
oldhome
wouter@rock:~/scratch$

Most of my immediate needs are in svn now. If I ever need something which isn't in svn currently, I'll fish it out of rock:~/scratch/oldhome. But I needed to get this done before I get the new laptop...