On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 19:48:15 +0200, David Härdeman wrote: > I recently had the idea to store and track /etc using git. When googling > the topic I came across the "Using git to store /etc" thread from the > end of last year which provided some interesting details on what would > be necessary. > > It seems the file metadata (owner, group, mode, xattrs, etc) was the big > stumbling point, so I wrote up a tool over the last few days which > allows the metadata to be stored in a separate file which can be stored > along with the rest of the data in the repo (or separately). > > This is also useful for tripwire type checks and for other types of > storage which drops some of the metadata (tar comes to mind)... > > The tool (metastore) is available from: > git://git.hardeman.nu/metastore.git > > Not completely cleaned up yet (it lacks a real README and some Makefile > targets) but I hope it might be useful to others (it sure is to me). > > Please CC me on any replies. Have you looked at IsiSetup (http://www.isisetup.ch/, linked from http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools) yet? It's a front-end to git specifically targeted for versioning configuration. From a quick glance at it's web I don't see whether it already stores the metadata you describe, but in either case it could be interesting for you. -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
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