On 31/07/07, Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am considering learning subversion as a possible solution to guard > > against accidental edits and deletes. Or am I on the wrong track there? > > By all accounts it is a Good Thing.
Sure is. I check the entire of /etc into a repository, and keep it checked in and updated when things change (i.e. package installation, config changes, etc). You need to do an import-in-place, which is not directly easy, but there are FAQs on the subversion site for just that - basically, create the repository somewhere, create an empty 'etc' directory in it, then check that out into your real /etc ... then svn add everything in /etc, and check it in. Job done, without any harmful permissions-changing export/check out cycle. -jim
