[Chicago] Teach Me <something> at a ChiPy meeting?

[Martin Maney]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:24:10PM -0500, Atul Varma wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Martin Maney <maney at two14.net> wrote:
> 
> > [ot, after noticing the randomly selected sig quote: /me wonders if
> > Joey's using git now?  I know he has a neat sounding tool to help with
> > managing your /etc using git that I'd need to find time to play with.]
> >
> 
> Hey, this can be OT if you use mercurial instead of git. :)  It would be
> really easy with mercurial, too... I think just do this as root:

IIRC the cool part was arranging to have the packaging system do
commits when config files get changed.  And helping manage the things
that you don't want to have tracked.  Oh, and managing permissions and
maybe non-file special files.  And so forth.

http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/announcing_etckeeper/

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