[git-users] Re: How to ignore files with leading '#'

2010-01-11 Thread Rick
Thanks Chris, \#* works with git and rsync to exclude files beginning with # on my mac. I added --delete-excluded on my rsync script to remove the # files that had been copied to my destination directory. rsync excludes pattern \#* did NOT exclude \#foo on my mac, it may behave differently on a

Re: [git-users] using git for system configuration management

2010-01-11 Thread Rick DeNatale
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Brett Viren wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Tobias G. Pfeiffer wrote: > >> I want to use git to manage the system configuration (/etc/...) for a >> number of Linux servers in my network. > > You will want more than what git can do.  Look into using Puppe

Re: [git-users] using git for system configuration management

2010-01-11 Thread Brett Viren
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Tobias G. Pfeiffer wrote: > I want to use git to manage the system configuration (/etc/...) for a > number of Linux servers in my network. You will want more than what git can do. Look into using Puppet. You can use git to manage the Puppet manifests. -Brett.

[git-users] using git for system configuration management

2010-01-11 Thread Tobias G. Pfeiffer
Hi! I want to use git to manage the system configuration (/etc/...) for a number of Linux servers in my network. Right now, on every machine, /etc/ is a git repository where I locally commit after every change to config files, software upgrades etc. Now I thought that it would be great to have

[git-users] using git for system configuration management

2010-01-11 Thread Tobias G. Pfeiffer
Hi! I want to use git to manage the system configuration (/etc/...) for a number of Linux servers in my network. Right now, on every machine, /etc/ is a git repository where I locally commit after every change to config files, software upgrades etc. Now I thought that it would be great to have

[git-users] Re: How to ignore files with leading '#'

2010-01-11 Thread Chris Johnsen
On Jan 8, 12:44 pm, Rick wrote: > I have a habit of prepending '#' to filenames that I wish to archive > or ignore. So myfile.txt becomes #myfile.txt . I found that I can > ignore these files  by placing "*/#" in the .gitignore file in my home > directory (or in the repository exclude file). BTW,