On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Brian Friday<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Still working with git here and came across a interesting link this > weekend that I thought I would pass along: > > etckeeper: > Reference URL: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/etckeeper/ > > A collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, > darcs, or bzr repository. It hooks into apt (and other package > managers including yum and pacman-g2) to automatically commit changes > made to /etc during package upgrades. It tracks file metadata that > revison control systems do not normally support, but that is important > for /etc, such as the permissions of /etc/shadow. It's quite modular > and configurable, while also being simple to use if you understand the > basics of working with revision control. > > etckeeper is available in git at git://git.kitenet.net/etckeeper, or > in gitweb. It's packaged in Debian; packages for other distributions > are forthcoming.
I haven't done any work with git/svn/bzr or similars other than do a checkout for a program or two, to get the latest dev release, which brings me the question: what about security of the repository? I suppose there is user/pass combination, but is it like, SSL, does it have something protecting against brute-force, etc? very interesting program though, thanks for sharing!
