Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
On Aug 17, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Mercurial is easy enough that for the first time since RCS, the
entire OS on my computer is now under source control.
There is no reason why this would not work on Linux, is there? What if
you have code in your homedir checked out of hg and then you put your
whole system under hg. Does hg drop a .hg dir or something like that in
every dir on your whole system like I seem to recall that svn and cvs
do? (or do they only do that in the top level dir under version
control?) And aren't all of the constantly changing and transient files
a real problem? And what if an upgrade changes, among other things, libc
and you decide to revert it back? If hg isn't careful you will crash
your system right? Keeping a whole OS image under version control sounds
like a neat idea. I'm just wondering how well it works in practice and
how it interacts with the system package manager: Does it complement or
work against it?
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