[wplug] Subversive etc

[John Harrold]

Sometime in April Michael A. Smith assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Hey, all, has anyone ever put /etc/ under version control? I'm trying it
| now with Subversion, but I'd like to hear if anyone has hit any bumps
| doing this before. My /etc doesn't change all that often, but it's nice
| to know I can easily revert changes if I need.

I had a friend who did this and he spoke very highly of it. I think it's a
good idea if you have several people managing a server or if you are
training someone new who would be more likely to screw things up. I use
subversion to manage many of the ~/. files. That way I can make sure a
change I made to a file in my .vim/ directory at school will eventually get
to home and my laptop. It's also good for when my bayes tokens in
spamassassin get corrupted.

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