From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: martin f krafft Subject: Re: Track /etc directory using Git Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:42:25 +0200 Organization: The Debian project Message-ID: <20070915154225.GA17704@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> References: <38b2ab8a0709130511q7a506c5cvb0f8785a1d7ed7ad@mail.gmail.com> <20070913123137.GA31735@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <38b2ab8a0709140108v2a9c3569i93b39f351f1d4ec3@mail.gmail.com> <20070914091545.GA26432@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <20070914212643.GA10970@amy.inscure.wireless.home.vilz.de> <20070915142932.GB27494@artemis.corp> <20070915152455.GA16223@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <20070915152724.GC27494@artemis.corp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" Cc: Pierre Habouzit , Nicolas Vilz , "Thomas Harning Jr." , Francis Moreau To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Sep 15 17:42:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IWZnD-0008BV-F9 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:42:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751401AbXIOPmn (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:42:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750948AbXIOPmn (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:42:43 -0400 Received: from clegg.madduck.net ([82.197.162.59]:45263 "EHLO clegg.madduck.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750774AbXIOPmm (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:42:42 -0400 Received: from wall.oerlikon.madduck.net (77-56-87-151.dclient.hispeed.ch [77.56.87.151]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wall.oerlikon.madduck.net", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (verified OK)) by clegg.madduck.net (postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF48BA3A9; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:42:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from piper.oerlikon.madduck.net (piper.oerlikon.madduck.net [192.168.14.3]) by wall.oerlikon.madduck.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDCB9F161; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:42:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by piper.oerlikon.madduck.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 566E1B3106; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:42:25 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070915152724.GC27494@artemis.corp> X-Motto: Keep the good times rollin' X-OS: Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid kernel 2.6.22-2-amd64 x86_64 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4279/Sat Sep 15 14:53:34 2007 on clegg.madduck.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable also sprach Pierre Habouzit [2007.09.15.1727 +0200]: > > I think it doesn't get bloated until you try to support the model of > > tracking different stuff for different files in the same repo. If > > you just track one set of data across all files in the repo, I don't > > think it'll cause too much bloat. >=20 > Yeah but if the stuff is opaque to git, you'll definitely end up with > security issues, which makes it also a no-go for /etc versionning. With "opaque to git" do you mean "implemented outside git"? I'd say if done properly inside git, the security issues could be prevented. --=20 .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems =20 "this sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't." -- douglas hofstadter --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="digital_signature_gpg.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/) Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG6/1hIgvIgzMMSnURAuQyAKCn8AXxIVgexM9xW8/ByIFJOk4RQgCgvfTP FzRWK0CxFF5qoH2t+bvBdAY= =u76K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--