Re: Using git on / for configuration files

[Eli Billauer]

I tried to symlink /boot/grub/ and got one single file (the symbolic link itself). Some googling immediately revealed that making git follow symlinks is a popular question, with a typical answer that git doesn't like to do that (or can't do that). So given that a configuration repository is supposed to be a long term thing, I would avoid this, even if I found a way to trick git into following symlinks. Even specific symlinks (because /etc has a few of its own).    Eli On 06/08/2012 08:06 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> writes: What I liked less, is that the repository is under /etc (not surprising, and still), so configuration files outside that directory can't be tracked. /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/, for example. So, out of curiousity, what does it do with symlinks? A typical use case, in my mind, would be a package under /opt with configuration under /opt/foo/etc and symlinks under /etc/foo - how is that handled? If it works in some sane way then maybe all it takes is symlinking what you need? -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il

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