Mirror plain directory under git

Mirror plain directory under git

[Tong Sun]

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

Re: Mirror plain directory under git

[Enrico Weigelt]

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

Hi,

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

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 ;-))


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Re: Mirror plain directory under git

[Daniel Johnson]

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Re: Mirror plain directory under git

[Tong Sun]

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:
> 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.

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:

Received: by x1.dev; 24 Sep 2010 12:07:27 -0000
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2010 14:08:05 +0200
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:56:21 +0200

HTH

Tong

Re: Mirror plain directory under git

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Tong Sun <suntong@cpan.org> 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:

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


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