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From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tracking file metadata in git -- fix metastore or enhance git?
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 02:29:59 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 21:27, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> wrote:

> but seeing that people seem to want to use
> git for keeping their /etc (I use RCS, myself, but volunteered my
> C skill to change metastore if it needs be) there is definitively
> a market for having it there, in a standardised manner.

etckeeper does exist and it's very useful.


Richard