On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:41:27PM +0200 I heard the voice of Ulrich Spörlein, and lo! it spake thus: > > I have a .hg directory sitting in / for every machine I usually take > care of. hgignore is of course set to *, so only explicitly added files > are tracked.
I do pretty much the same thing (except mine has .bzr/ and .bzrignore ;). Using the VCS to handle updates requires something a bit broader though. I HAVE considered it. You'd need to do the sort of 'make install' stuff mergemaster does to a tempdir, and make a branch there checking in the snapshots, and have your etc be a derived branch from that. That way you have all the VCS merge capabilities to do the merges and track where they came from. Mergemaster works well enough that I've given no serious thought beyond idle "that would be cool" thinking on the matter though 8-} -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
