Using git to store /etc, redux

I recently had the idea to store and track /etc using git. When googling the topic I came across the "Using git to store /etc" thread from the end of last year which provided some interesting details on what would be necessary.

It seems the file metadata (owner, group, mode, xattrs, etc) was the big stumbling point, so I wrote up a tool over the last few days which allows the metadata to be stored in a separate file which can be stored along with the rest of the data in the repo (or separately).

This is also useful for tripwire type checks and for other types of storage which drops some of the metadata (tar comes to mind)...

The tool (metastore) is available from: git://git.hardeman.nu/metastore.git

Not completely cleaned up yet (it lacks a real README and some Makefile targets) but I hope it might be useful to others (it sure is to me).

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