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/etc is a good candidate

/etc is a good candidate

Posted Aug 7, 2008 0:25 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: /etc is a good candidate by rickmoen
Parent article: Git Magic

It doesn't use metastore anymore.  A certain lwn reader didn't like having a big binary-only
file in /etc and sent Joey some patches to replace it with a text file and simple find
commands.  ~March 17-20, 2008

I like etckeeper.  When the bad stuff starts flying, it sure is nice to be able to roll back
to a known good config.  And the cryptographic integrity makes a nice sanity check.


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