[TAG] Version control for /etc

[Thomas Adam]

On 26/10/2007, Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil at imsc.res.in> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was looking at version control mechanisms to handle /etc
> on the machines here. If people on TAG have used such systems I would
> appreciate feedback.

Avoid them.  They become problematic, since you enforce something on
/etc for which it was never designed.  At best you can try and tie in
the package manager
(http://www.isisetup.ch/wiki/IsiSetupRevisionControl) but even that
relies on so many things.

> GIT: Another modern VC system (though not "notable" as per Rick's
> kb). It is rather similar to Mercurial in many ways. One difference

Heh.  I've been using GIT for a long time, it's a tool I migrated to
at work away from SVN.  It's very good, but not so good for something
like /etc -- since its permissions model is something to desired.

-- Thomas Adam