On 31/08/2018 7:52 PM, Jerry Callen wrote:
Do other platforms really use source control for everything? How many
unix systems have you encountered where /etc is under source control,
people have their own copies and merge changes into the real /etc? Any?
Not to air dirty laundry, but some places I've worked have done this,
others not. :-/ In any case, it's not unheard of, and becoming the norm.
On our z/OS system our systems programmer keeps a backup of config
files. This is an anachronism that's solved by Git.
DOC:/u/doc: >ll /etc/profile*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 18639 Mar 7 16:20 /etc/profile
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 14678 Sep 17 2010 /etc/profile.20111120
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 15736 Mar 28 2016 /etc/profile.20160329
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 16227 Mar 29 2016
/etc/profile.2016_04_06
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 16484 Apr 6 2016
/etc/profile.2016_05_19
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 16641 May 19 2016
/etc/profile.2016_06_10
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 16913 Oct 25 2016
/etc/profile.2016_11_23
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 14678 Sep 17 2010 /etc/profile.d20111108
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 14752 Nov 20 2011 /etc/profile.d20120324
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 15435 Mar 21 2014
/etc/profile.d2015_08_07
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 15508 Aug 7 2015 /etc/profile.d20160321
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 16808 Jun 10 2016
/etc/profile.d2016_10_25
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 16993 Nov 23 2016
/etc/profile.d2017_05_29
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 17342 May 29 2017
/etc/profile.d2017_08_17
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT ZOSMF@G 18227 Mar 7 16:15 /etc/profile.db2v11
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 14944 Mar 25 2012 /etc/profile.db2v9
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 14755 Nov 1 2011
/etc/profile67174559.d20111101
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 15356 Nov 30 2012
/etc/profile_d2014_0321
-rwxr-xr-x 1 BPXROOT 2611 17427 Aug 17 2017
/etc/profile_d2017_10_17
Another anachronism is annotating source lines of code when fixing bugs
or adding new features. I hate that! It hangs around like
old smelly laundry soiling the source code. I don't care what happened
ten years ago I only care about the present. History should be
kept in source control and not code.
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