Mirror plain directory under git

Hi,

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

More or less like what etckeeper is doing to revision /etc directory. I.e., I want to use git + some magic to replace rdiff-backup, so as not only easily to restore, but also easy to track revision changes as well.

It is just a wild dream?

Please CC me when replying.

Thanks

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

Hi,

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

I know nothing about the subject matter of your email, but the date appears to be wrong on this email message, hiding it back further in the history than it should be. Just a warning, as the last few emails you sent all seem to be like this.

Some of the relevant mail headers from this mail:

First of all, thanks a lot Enrico for your answer. I was just about to gave up, and start coding for rcs. Your answer is extremely helpful.

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Daniel Johnson <computerdruid@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, I took the liberty to look into the issue, and it seems that, Enrico, it's your mailgate.caprica.metux.de mail gateway that is causing the delay -- taking 3 days for your email to come out of it:

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HTH

Tong

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

Yep. I some trouble with my relay - quota was exceeded and so all the mails were stuck in uucp spools instead of being relayed ;-o

cu