Re: recommendations for version controlling /etc on a new f12 box?

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On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 17:06 +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: 
> On 02/18/2010 03:55 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >    i'm about to install f12 fresh on a new laptop and i thought it
> > would be fun to version control all of /etc since that's where all the
> > fun happens.  anyone doing that?  recommendations?  a quick google
> > found this:
> >
> > http://aymanh.com/version-control-linux-configuration-files-etc-etckeeper

That looks sort of cute.

> >
> > i'm just curious if there's a strategy that's clearly superior to the
> > rest, or if this sort of thing is even worth it.

I haven't done it, but I think about it occasionally.  Maybe next
installation.

Before I saw this, I figured on using Subversion.

> rsync

rsync doesn't preserve revision histories.

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