Re: Mirror plain directory under git

From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Date: Sep 21, 2010, 07:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20100921075621.GA27575@nibiru.local>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=9nqfzR-Zo85LieBuhv97oudCVZCex8ZL3mM0t@mail.gmail.com>

* Tong Sun <suntong@cpan.org> wrote:

Hi,

> How feasible it is to mirror a plain directory and put it under git
> revision control (leaving the original intact)?

Probably you'll want to have the .git dir outside of /etc, so --git-dir and --work-dir are your friend (man 1 git).

An cron-script could look something like that:

    #!/bin/bash

    cd /var/my-etc-archive.git && \
	git --work-dir=/etc add -A && \
	git --work-dir=/etc commit -m "autocommit" && \
	git push origin

(perhaps filter the output a bit, so you don't get unncessary cron mails ;-))

cu

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