Using git on / for configuration files

[Eli Billauer]

Let's take them one by one:

bind mounting: That reminds me that I once mounted my / somewhere under 
my home directory to make it temporarily available over an SMB share. It 
was a quick thing, and then I went rm -rf on the directory under which 
the mount was done. The only time ever I needed to restore / from backup.

git submodules: I'll try that out, if my plan A fails (moving .git to 
/). Even though plan A involves hacking in etckeeper's scripts, it looks 
like the natural solution to me.

   Eli

On 06/09/2012 08:46 AM, Amos Shapira wrote:
>
> What about linking the none-/etc directories as git submodules? Would 
> that help?
>
> (I'm still 100 pages from the end of Pro Git and just read about 
> submodules last night).
>
> On Jun 9, 2012 2:13 AM, "Oron Peled" <oron at actcom.co.il 
> <mailto:oron at actcom.co.il>> wrote:
>
>     On Friday, 8 בJune 2012 12:24:55 Eli Billauer wrote:
>     > <blockquote type="cite">
>     > <pre wrap="">What I liked less, is that the repository is under /etc
>     (not surprising, and
>     > still), so configuration files outside that directory can't be
>     > tracked. /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/, for example.
>     > </pre>
>     > </blockquote>
>     > <pre wrap="">
>     [ Replying to HTML mail... thanks, Eli you deserve it :-( ]
>
>     If you only want to follow a couple of directories/files you can
>     bind-mount them to something under /etc and solve the problem.
>
>     Cheers,
>
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