Hi everyone, I'm using SVN to maintain lots of different host specific configs like crontab files, web server configs and the directory /etc/sysstat. The current approach is to simply have some directory structure in trunk named by topics like /trunk/Mail/Postfix for some reference host, if any such host makes sense at all. That config is then copied to e.g. /tags/Mail/Postfix/other.host and Postfix for that host maintained in that writable tag.
GIT doesn't have writable tags, which might be worked around using branches or one repo per host or stuff. The more important difference is that SVN can have a working copy for each and every maintained directory. So one can really make /etc/postfix or /etc/sysstat a working copy and maintaine that only, without additionally necessary subdirs and without having .svn in /etc or alike. AFAIK that is not possible in GIT, even with sparse checkouts one needs a subdir of some kind, which is pretty incompatible with many system wide configs. Unless one wants to put .git into / or /etc or alike, which is what I would like to avoid. **Any useful suggestions for workarounds?** I can only think of two things: Putting the GIT clone somewhere and link directories into that. Which won't work very well for directories for which I only want to maintain some and not all files and seems like a lot of work, might break package management etc. The other thing I have in mind is using branches and their implicit available ROOT. So I would create "etc/sysstat" as branch name, clone some repo into /etc/sysstat and checkout the corresponding branch name. That branch would only contain the files for that directory. For other directories other branch names would need to be created, e.g. "var/spool/cron/crontabs". The problems I see are with introducing host names, branch name lengths and stuff, though host names could easily be individual repos again. **Any further ideas? Thanks!** Mit freundlichen Grüßen Thorsten Schöning -- AM-SoFT IT-Service - Bitstore Hameln GmbH Mitglied der Bitstore Gruppe - Ihr Full-Service-Dienstleister für IT und TK E-Mail: thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de Web: http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ Tel: +49 5151- 9468- 0 Tel: +49 5151- 9468-55 Mobil: +49 178-8 9468-04 AM-SoFT IT-Service - Bitstore Hameln GmbH, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln AG Hannover HRB 221853 - Geschäftsführer: Janine Galonska Für Rückfragen stehe ich Ihnen jederzeit zur Verfügung. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning Telefon: +49 5151 9468-55 Fax: E-Mail: tschoen...@am-soft.de AM-Soft IT-Service - Bitstore Hameln GmbH Brandenburger Straße 7c 31789 Hameln Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen und ist ausschliesslich für den Adressaten bestimmt. Jeglicher Zugriff auf diese E-Mail durch andere Personen als den Adressaten ist untersagt. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese E-Mail. Sollten Sie nicht der für diese E-Mail bestimmte Adressat sein, ist Ihnen jede Veröffentlichung, Vervielfältigung oder Weitergabe wie auch das Ergreifen oder Unterlassen von Massnahmen im Vertrauen auf erlangte Information untersagt. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Hinweise zum Datenschutz: bitstore.group/datenschutz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/1365116723.20221012194225%40am-soft.de.
