On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > On March 27, 2014, Mike Small quoth: >> First, a big warning: By checking /etc into version control, you are >> creating a copy of files like /etc/shadow that must remain >> secret. [...] > > This is one reason I use the "sparse tree" method I mentioned > yesterday, which versions only the files that one cares about. I don't > see much reason to version /etc/shadow or other data files that are > usually updated by tools and rarely modified by text editing.
The problem I see with this is that it is possible for those rare modifications to break things in ways that aren't apparent for some time. If you didn't track those changes it can be difficult to figure out what the previous working state of the system was. I maintain that the minimal cost in disk space is repaid if it makes fixing a problem like this easier just one time in the life of a system. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
