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etckeeper

2016-02-11 18:21:02.686928+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

etckeeper

... is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, bazaar or darcs repository. This lets you use git to review or revert changes that were made to /etc. Or even push the repository elsewhere for backups or cherry-picking configuration changes.

Hooks into apt, stores metadata to keep file permissions managed correctly.

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#Comment Re: etckeeper made: 2016-02-12 02:45:26.548413+01 by: Jack William Bell

Brilliant!

I wonder what other non-obvious problems one can apply git to?