From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Using GIT to store /etc (Or: How to make GIT store all file permission bits) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:55:08 -0500 Message-ID: <457D390C.6020605@garzik.org> References: <787BE48C-1808-4A33-A368-5E8A3F00C787@mac.com> <200612101926.33307.jnareb@gmail.com> <19476830-E30A-42B7-AD9B-4C417D830C8E@mac.com> <457D3573.2010001@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:55:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Ericsson , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) In-Reply-To: <457D3573.2010001@op5.se> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gtioa-0000cE-SP for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:55:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762667AbWLKKzR (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:55:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762669AbWLKKzR (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:55:17 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:44991 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762667AbWLKKzP (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:55:15 -0500 Received: from cpe-065-190-194-075.nc.res.rr.com ([65.190.194.75] helo=[10.10.10.10]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1GtioP-000583-C9; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:55:09 +0000 To: Kyle Moffett Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Another option is to have a process that stores your configs in git, and script an export from git to rpm|deb. Packaging systems make it even easier to go between config versions. Jeff