"Gour D." <g...@atmarama.net> writes: > Hello! > > For a long time I wanted to keep my /etc under version control, but > darcs is one of those DVCS where it is explicitly said it is not safe > to do due to lack of support for perms & symlinks...So, this is nice > opportunity to deploy Monotone... > > On #monotone I've got info to take a look at "6.1.10 Attribute > Handling", but would like to hear some more hints how to proceed in the > "/etc under mtn" project?
I've been doing this for several years now, without a problem on my Debian laptop. The only trick, for me, was to ignore some files which are symlinks to files outside /etc (most of these point to binary executables anyway). Here is my /etc/.mtn-ignore: rc.\.d mtab alternatives I have a dedicated database, /var/lib/monotone/etc.mtn-0.46, which is owned by root and only writable by root. I usually use only one branch, org.ludovic-brenta.etc, and switch to another branch when spending time at my parents' home (and using their wifi access). I commit changes made by the package manager directly to that branch. I do not need to keep the pristine configuration files under version control since Debian already local changes nicely. -- Ludovic Brenta. _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel