>>> On 11/2/2012 at 10:41 AM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:

> I thought about using rsync. However,  rsync simply replaces old versions 
> with new versions, thus not maintain a set of "fallback" versions. I was 
> thinking that by using git, I could both have an annotated change control log 
> and a "remote" backup. Two for the price of one, so to speak.

Rsync will make the backup copy if you specify "-b", but it certainly won't 
give you annotations.  Considering that lots of other people use git for 
maintaining system configuration files across multiple systems, I don't see 
anything fundamentally different with what you're doing.


Mark Post

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