On 03/28/2013 11:33 AM, John McKown wrote:
I do that, partially at least. I track the files in /etc. But I
generally only do it after I do a yum upgrade. All I do is:
cd /etc
sudo git init #well, only the first time
sudo git add -A .
sudo git commit -m "commit message"
You could just get in the habit of doing the last two every time you
modify anything in the /etc subdirectory hierarchy.
I also do multi-machine tracking. Similar to:
#logon to git global repository machine as root
cd /global/repositories/git
git init --bare configurations.git
On each machine do the following as root
#to start up:
cd /etc
git init
git remote add origin
ssh://user@global/global/repositories/git/configurations.git
git checkout -b $(hostname)
git add -A .
git commit -m "commit message"
git push --all
git remote set-branches --add origin other-host-1 other-host-2 ...
git fetch
When I want to compare two machine, I log on to one and do:
cd /etc
git fetch
git diff HEAD other-host
Where "other-host" is the branch name (hostname) of the second host. I
often use the --stat for a smaller output if I only want to know the
names of the differing files and not the actual differences.
If you have multiple hosts, you can do all the compares on a given
host by doing the "git fetch" and then do:
git diff host1 host2
because the branch name for the files on host1 is host1 and is host2
for host2.
When you set up another host, you will need to do the above, then do a
"git remote set-branches --add origin new-host" on every other host so
that a "git fetch" on those hosts will pick up the new host.
Oh, I you only want to do the compares on a specific host, then you
can do the "get remote set-branches" just on that specific host.
Don't know if this is of any help to you or not. I hope it made some
sense.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Dale R. Worley <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm considering using Git to track the customizations I make to the
system files of my Linux box. Has anyone done that and has hints on
how to make it work well?
Actually, I have two Linux boxes, and I need to track both sets of
customizations. It looks easy enough to have one repository on each,
and each has a tracking branch for the other repository. But I'm not
clear on how to do the bookkeeping for cross-merging customizations
that are first inserted on one machine to the other. I have a feeling
that I want something that tracks which deltas from one lineage have
been merged into the other lineage, along the lines of the bookkeeping
that "svn merge" does.
Dale
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There is also this project on github:
https://github.com/bup/bup
I haven't used it, but it looks like it has some promise.
Bryce
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