Re: /etc in git?

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:05:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> You are much better off to keep /usr/src/rootstuff/.git (and
> working tree files are /usr/src/rootstuff/etc/hosts and
> friends), have a build procedure (read: Makefile) there, and
> version control that source directory.  I usually have 'install'
> and 'diff' target in that Makefile, so that I can do this:

	A while back I wrote CVSMan, which tries to be berkeley sup(8)
with CVS as the transport.  I think git would work well here, but I
haven't yet generalized the code to support non-CVS SCMs (I certainly
have wanted to, it's the only thing I use CVS for anymore).
	Like GIT, CVS doesn't do perms well.  However, CVSMan handles
the perms via .cvsperms files.

Joel

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