Pierre-Julien Bringer wrote: > 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: I've been using etckeeper for a while now, and it's working reasonably well. The one thing I personally don't like, however, is the fact that etckeeper automatically commits a dirty /etc state before the auto-commits for any installed packages. I.e. auto-commit on apt-get GOOD, auto-commit on other changes BAD. Fortunately, it's relatively easy to change the commit hooks to do your bidding. :-) With carefully issued Git commands, you can have Git refuse to touch any files when there is a merge conflict, so you can resolve it in another checkout. Of course, Git makes it extremely easy to back out a failed merge, so as long as there isn't an essential process polling /etc every few seconds, you should be savvy if you revert before a reboot. -- 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
