[wplug] Subversive etc

[Eric Hsiung]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 08:26, John Harrold wrote:
> 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.

I've been researching Subversion/Arch/etc the last couple of days. This
might interest some of you:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/06/svn_homedir.html


Eric