From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miklos Vajna Subject: Re: Sharing home and etc files with git Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:50:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20080605205031.GH29404@genesis.frugalware.org> References: <48484607.5090505@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AG41CdL1ZWVzkk/P" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: iiijjjiii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 05 22:51:51 2008 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 1K4MR3-0008FY-9H for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:51:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756011AbYFEUuf (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:50:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761280AbYFEUuf (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:50:35 -0400 Received: from virgo.iok.hu ([193.202.89.103]:37226 "EHLO virgo.iok.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751909AbYFEUue (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:50:34 -0400 Received: from kag.elte.hu (kag.elte.hu [157.181.177.1]) by virgo.iok.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992491B252C; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:50:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from genesis.frugalware.org (frugalware.elte.hu [157.181.177.34]) by kag.elte.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20154469E; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:32:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by genesis.frugalware.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EBAC11190ACA; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:50:31 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48484607.5090505@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --AG41CdL1ZWVzkk/P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:01:11PM -0400, iiijjjiii w= rote: > I would like to use git to keep revision histories of my home and etc=20 > directories. First, git is to track content, not permissions. So it is not the right tool. Second, you can try etckeeper which does this on top of git. But still please keep in mind that you may have serious problems, like: if you get a conflict in /etc/passwd, you may not be able to login, etc... --AG41CdL1ZWVzkk/P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhIUZcACgkQe81tAgORUJb8rgCeKTWz3O21jUApus9DHFLLqXVT BwgAn0I11kUqDMIVofYiXjJyV7n6msey =piy0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AG41CdL1ZWVzkk/P--