Re: /etc in git?

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Jan 19, 2006, 04:59 UTC
Message-ID: <43CF1CBA.8030206@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <b476569a0601182040w581b72b7xbb99845da4085646@mail.gmail.com>

Adam Hunt wrote:

> Do you have any more details by chance?  Does it work?  Does it work
> well?  How does one do it?

I've put my home directory dot files into git, and I'm assuming it's going to be a similar issue for /etc. I've found git to be unusually suitable for this, for the following reasons:

- git can deal with only managing a handful of files from a large 
hierarchy, without an insane performance penalty.
- git only needs one repository directory at the root of the tree, not 
in each subdirectory.

The biggest *problem* with git is that it doesn't handle files which need to have their permissions maintained.

	-hpa