Thanks for the hints Peter, I will try that out. Looks like your already testing etckeeper :) good to hear about that too.
Pretty much what your doing is exactly what I need to do we are stuck in cshrc land due to vendor tools though... I remember a time when I loved (t)cshrc but that was a long time ago when I was young... - Brian On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Peter Manis<[email protected]> wrote: > I am not doing it for multiple hosts but I source a number of various files > for each of my dot files. Each file I source is for a specific part of each > dotfile so I can easily append to it without screwing anything up. Those > sourced files are then kept in version control. It is helpful when you have > a few hundred lines in your dotfiles. As for history I am appending as soon > as the command is run so that I do not lose history in multiple sessions, > and I have it in bashrc so that it will also work properly with screen, if > you put the history settings in .bash_profile history will be overwritten > when you exit screen > As for etckeeper the directory is root 700 so they are not anymore > unprotected than any other file in /etc > 1114905 drwx------ 8 root root 4096 2009-07-06 07:39 .git
