8 Jan
2007
8 Jan
'07
4:42 p.m.
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Luke-Jr wrote:
of course, "essential" is highly subjective. With the current vast expanse of hard drive space, it can make sense to keep not just /etc/ but your whole damn system in a subversion respository. svn as backup software!
Haha, maybe-- but I'd prefer that be done on the filesystem level when you do that.
The problem with Subversion for this, and why it won't work too great outside of configs, is that it doesn't store owner/group or permissions at all.
It may not do it automatically, but it can do it in a very unobtrusive manner by setting a property on the file. I see a 6 or so line shell script that will get subversion to do what is desired.
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