Re: Using git on / for configuration files

[Eli Billauer]

Aha. I learn something new every day. As for git, on the contrary. /etc/alternatives contains symbolic links, so it would be pointless to follow them. What git wisely does is maintaining the link's destination. So if you change or delete the symbolic link, you get exactly that change in the repository. I tried changing a symbolic link, committed to git, and got a single plus-minus change in the diff log, with the names of the destination files. Now it's clear to me why git doesn't follow symlinks. Not the first time it turns out smarter than me. :P    Eli On 06/08/2012 02:03 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> writes: My what down the drain? Eh, "man alternatives"? "ls -l /etc/alternatives"? I think it gets installed with chkconfig... Whatever, it's a humongous collection of symlinks to default version of all sorts of things (perl and java come to mind), and a way to maintain them, switch between versions, etc. My home Fedora has more than 180 symlinks under /etc/alternatives - none that I touched though. I've been in situations where something you need - typically some 3rd party piece your production software depends on - requires a particular version of, say, JVM (they are all incompatible, as you probably know). Then it becomes really handy as a part of your installation procedure. -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il

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