[Monotone-devel] /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Gour D.
Hello! For a long time I wanted to keep my /etc under version control, but darcs is one of those DVCS where it is explicitly said it is not safe to do due to lack of support for perms symlinks...So, this is nice opportunity to deploy Monotone... On #monotone I've got info to take a look at

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Lapo Luchini
Gour D. wrote: On #monotone I've got info to take a look at 6.1.10 Attribute Handling, but would like to hear some more hints how to proceed in the /etc under mtn project? Mhh, there are hooks for attribute handling, but out of the box I fear monotone is not much more capable of versioning a

Re: [Monotone-devel] /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Brian May
On 26 July 2010 01:23, Gour D. g...@atmarama.net wrote: For a long time I wanted to keep my /etc under version control, but darcs is one of those DVCS where it is explicitly said it is not safe to do due to lack of support for perms symlinks...So, this is nice opportunity to deploy

Re: [Monotone-devel] /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Brian May
On 26 July 2010 10:13, Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote: At one time monotone was supported, One second thoughts, it is possible I am getting mercurial and monotone confused. My memory likes to play tricks on me after a while... Still, as mercurial is supported, I think this

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:00:29AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: Gour D. wrote: On #monotone I've got info to take a look at 6.1.10 Attribute Handling, but would like to hear some more hints how to proceed in the /etc under mtn project? The hard part of versioning /etc is interfacing cleanly

Re: [Monotone-devel] /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread jack-monotone
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 05:23:10PM +0200, Gour D. wrote: For a long time I wanted to keep my /etc under version control, but darcs is one of those DVCS where it is explicitly said it is not safe to do due to lack of support for perms symlinks...So, this is nice opportunity to deploy

Re: [Monotone-devel] nvm.options

2010-07-25 Thread Timothy Brownawell
On 07/21/2010 05:25 PM, Thomas Keller wrote: Am 21.07.10 01:10, schrieb Thomas Keller: Am 20.07.10 04:58, schrieb Timothy Brownawell: On 07/18/2010 08:19 AM, Stephen Leake wrote: Tim, Just letting you know I've been keeping up with nvm.options, and it all looks very good so far. I think

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Gour D.
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:00:29 +0200 Lapo == Lapo Luchini l...@lapo.it wrote: Lapo Mhh, there are hooks for attribute handling, but out of the box Lapo I fear monotone is not much more capable of versioning a Lapo whole /etc without problems (for more or less the same reason Lapo that darcs says).

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Gour D.
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:47:48 -0400 hendrik == hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: hendrik Maybe we should start logging bugs against package managers. :-) hendrik Of course if you exclusively hand-edit your /etc it's another hendrik story. I'm doing it manually, but would like to revert easily if

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Gour D.
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:13:01 +1000 Brian == Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote: Brian Have a look at etckeeper. Brian Brian http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/ Thank you for reminding me about it. Brian At one time monotone was supported, although, unfortunately, I Brian don't

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Gour D.
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:20:19 +1000 Brian == Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote: Brian Still, as mercurial is supported, I think this should mean it is Brian possible to support monotone too. Somebody needs to write the Brian code. I pulled the repo and see that everything is written