<div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Eli Billauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@billauer.co.il" target="_blank">eli@billauer.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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So what do you say? A bad idea? A brilliant idea? Everyone's doing it and nobody told me?<br></blockquote><div><br>I don't know about everyone but I have been doing it (on my home computers) for so long that I am still on CVS, not git. My repository lives in /usr/local (and, accordingly, is backed up, unlike the root partition with the real /etc on it). I am probably not quite consistent in the sense that I don't keep ALL my configuration under control, but pieces of it - certainly. Of course, I only keep those things that I modify in some serious and not easily recoverable way. I do not see much need to keep all of the default settings that I never touch under version control. As a from-memory example of what I do keep under version control - /etc/mail. You don't need a reminder to set up permissions properly, i suppose.<br>
<br>I am sure experienced people will point out that a more comprehensive solution would be to keep your puppet or similar configuration under version control, but it may be a serious overkill for a couple of (home) computers.<br>
<br></div></div>-- <br>Oleg Goldshmidt | <a href="mailto:oleg@goldshmidt.org" target="_blank">pub@goldshmidt.org</a><br>
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