Using git on / for configuration files

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

Eli Billauer <eli at billauer.co.il> writes:

> I tried to symlink /boot/grub/ and got one single file (the symbolic link
> itself). Some googling immediately revealed that making git follow symlinks is
> a popular question, with a typical answer that git doesn't like to do that (or
> can't do that).
> So given that a configuration repository is supposed to be a long term thing,
> I would avoid this, even if I found a way to trick git into following
> symlinks. Even specific symlinks (because /etc has a few of its
> own).

So there goes your /etc/alternatives down the drain?

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Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org