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User links about "revisioncontrol" on iLinkShare — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:18:18 +0000

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Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:42:14 +0000

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By: yungchin

yungchin — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:38:02 +0000

Hi Ludovic, thanks! Actually, just yesterday I left a reply there – and I put a link to it at the top of this post :)

By: Ludovic Claude

Ludovic Claude — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:35:45 +0000

There is a little project, etckeeper, which can version /etc with git, hg or bzr, and adds versioning of file metadata plus some hooks into apt which will commit the changes automatically when installing new packages.

See http://daniel.hahler.de/?blog=14&title=track_changes_to_etc_configuration_files

By: Daniel Hahler

Daniel Hahler — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:36:11 +0000

Ubuntu Hardy has “etckeeper”, a package to support just that.
The default VCS there is “Git”, but it has bzr support, too.
See my blog post about etckeeper.

By: Eight tips for a robust Ubuntu Hardy installation « oei.yungchin.NL

Eight tips for a robust Ubuntu Hardy installation « oei.yungchin.NL — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:46:58 +0000

[...] never met recommend to me, but I really like to keep track of those actions, too. So here you go: version control on /etc using Bazaar. As explained there, version control gives you some cool flexibility that a simple backup [...]

By: yungchin

yungchin — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:43:26 +0000

Hey Vincent,

well actually it’s quite manageable – I’ve been doing it for a couple of months on my desktop box now. It would be neat to take out the overhead and possibility of forgetting though. Maybe I need to find a way to integrate it with sudoedit.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:19:43 +0000

Interesting idea, using version control for /etc/. I’d use Git because I’m familiar with that, but I suppose I don’t really have a need to do this. It’d be a lot of overhead to make a new commit each time I edit something – if I even thought of it, because I don’t manually edit files that often. I suppose there’s a bigger chance that a backup is created automatically like e.g. displayconfig-gtk does.

Nice idea though :)