On Sun, 2007-09-02 22:37:43 +0200, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I'm just thinking about storing our whole company's configuration into
> > GIT, because I'm all too used to it. That is, there are configuration
> > dumps of n*10000 routers and switches, as well as "regular"
> > configuration files on server machines (mostly Linux and Solaris.)
> > While probably all of the server machines could run GIT natively, we
> > already have some scripts to dump all router's/switch's configuration
> > to a Solaris system, so we could it import/commit from there. There
> > might be a small number of Windows machines, but I guess these will be
> > done by exporting the interesting stuff to Linux/Solaris machines...
> >
> > I initially thought about running a git-init-db on each machine's root
> > directory and adding all interesting files, but that might hurt GIT's
> > usage for single software projects on those machines, no?
>
> It could break shell scripts, since
> cd /;echo `pwd`/filename
> does not return /filename.
Well, I don't think that this is much of a problem.
> I don't think that the root directory is a good place for starting
> git.
Maybe :) But this is why I brought up the discussion, to get other
people's oppinion on this topic.
MfG, JBG
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