On 02/23/2012 12:48 AM, Alfredo Palhares wrote: > Hello Don, > > Excerpts from Don deJuan's message of Thu Feb 23 07:35:52 +0100 2012: >> What is considered the Arch way to have version control over the configs >> in /etc? I would like to be able to see at least a few changes back in >> my config history at the minimum. > > I too keep my /etc directory under version control. I have a a detached worktree. > Wich enables me to have the .git directory outside of /etc. The process is simple: > > You create a bare repo: > $ mkdir etc.git > $ git init --bare > Now lets congigure it to chek the files elsewhere: > $ git config core.worktree /etc > And export these vars to you current session > $ export GIT_DIR=/path/to/etc.git > $ export GIT_WORK_TREE=/etc > > Tip here a script[1] easy to work it. Just rember to run it with "." or "source" > *not* with "sh" since it open another bash session and kills it when script is done. > > Now you would be able to git add and git commit in your etc while keeping it clean. :) > >> I have seen the package etckeeper and it does not seem to really fully >> be setup to work with pacman. Both AUR packages are very outdated. > etckeeper doesn't really fit pacman cause pacman doesn't merge files automatically, only > apt does that (if you silly enough to configure it to do that :p ). Also etckeeper commits > all the files in /etc wich makes quite dummy commits. They not really resetable... > I use use it on debian server only as the last resource. > > The Arch way is quite simpler, every time you merge a pacnew or add a feature to a config file > you commit it and keep the same workflow as a normal code repo. Much simpler. > >> Would I just be best off just copying the ones I change and then push >> the changes to a separate dir that is under control of say git? What >> methods do you employ? > Well this is kinda hard to do (believe me i tried) Also having the .git on /etc and other dirs like > $HOME is quite anoying since i get the (branch) in red on my bash prompt[2]. > > I hope this can help you. > > [1] https://github.com/masterkorp/Home-files/blob/master/scripts/export_git.sh > [2] https://github.com/masterkorp/Home-files/blob/master/.bashrc > What about permissions and ownership? These are pretty important for /etc.
