On Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 6:50:06 AM UTC-5, hdv@gmail wrote: > On 2017-08-26 05:14, ray wrote: > > I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. > > ...snip > Hi Ray, > > I just returned from a short holiday, so I am a bit late to the party, but... > if > you don't want to set up a full versioning system I might have something else > for you. About 10 years ago I had the same need as you. What I did was write a > perl-script that automatically makes a timestamped backup of each file you > edit > to a directory you define yourself (in that directory the full path of the > original is preserved). You use it like visudo, you just call it like this: > > vicf <name of file to edit> > > All the rest happens automagically. > > Of course this will only help for plain-text files and it doesn't provide for > the annotations you mentioned. But if you are interested I > can mail it to you. > > Grx HdV ...snip
Yes, I would like to work with this. I should be able to modify the perl script to also save a tag file to hold the metadata. So now I have a reason to learn some perl. Thank you. Ray