Do you think storing the etc directory in git with etckeeper is a good thing? I've heard it was not recommended to do so for the home directory, but also for /etc: 1 Git tries to find a link between the changes and there would probably be none for $HOME, according to Randal Schwarz [1]. 2 Git does not store permissions of files [2]. 3 If Git has some sort of merge conflict on important config files (passwd, etc...), it would be pretty bad [3]. When using etckeeper: 1 There would be a link between the changes if a commit occurs between tasks. 2 Permissions are stored thanks to Metastore. I have only superficial experience in using git, and I don't really know how likely it would be for things to go wrong. Merging seems to be the dangerous operation, but using it to track linear history would be okay. Gentoo users have been able to use RCS for a long time, but that solution is considered to be deprecated, although it does the job. Can experienced git users think of any reason not to use a small subset of git for this task? Pierre-Julien Bringer [1] Randal Schwarz, "Git" at Google, October 12 2007, available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dhZ9BXQgc4 [2] Git project's FAQ available at http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq [3] Joey Hess, November 26 2007 on vcs-home -- Discussion list for storing ~ under VCS control, available at http://lists.madduck.net/pipermail/vcs-home/2007-November/000102.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
