[arch-general] Source control on /etc

[Don deJuan]

On 02/23/2012 08:56 AM, Alfredo Palhares wrote:
> Excerpts from Taylor Hedberg's message of Thu Feb 23 17:36:00 +0100 2012:
>> But that's problematic for files in /etc, many of which require specific
>> ownership or mode bits set/unset. You don't want your VCS to elide the
>> fact that /etc/shadow should only be readable by root, for instance.
>>
>> I don't think Git will change permissions on existing files in your
>> working directory, but if you ever cloned your /etc repo onto another
>> machine, the permissions would be screwed up.
> Yeah i agree, you should have carefull with that. I never transplant a the /etc of a machine
> i only use it as detailed backup. Whenever i have another machine i create a new /etc repository
> for it, copying manually the files i need because i dont even want the history back. You could
> do it with git using root and those files would be owned by root, you just need to adjust the
> ownerwhip like you set when you copy a file manually.
> In my home repo i do that and keep a branch for each computer, but on /etc repos not just because
> they often have very diferent distros and objectives.
Hey thanks again everyone I am going to start trying out both methods 
and see which I feel works best for me and will post which way I go.