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Re: File archiver using git

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GKGrzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
Date
Aug 27, 2006, 13:31 UTC
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Matt McCutchen wrote:
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> Dear git people,
>
> You might like the two attached scripts that I wrote around git to
> pack file trees containing lots of redundancy into very small
> packages.  For example, if I have ten slightly different versions of a
> piece of software because I didn't use version control, I can use
> gitar to compress them together.

Does it (and GIT in general) work ok with file permisions, ownership, soft and hard links, named sockets, device files and similar "strange" filesystem objects? Do I need any options to GIT to make it work with them?

Can I for example securely backup or even version-control /etc directory?
Grzegorz Kulewski
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