[LinuxUsers] Interesting use of git

[Peter Manis]

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

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Brian Friday <brian.friday at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Chris Louden<chris at chrislouden.com>
> wrote:
> > I have been keeping my dotfiles in Git for a while now. Very handy.
> > Since I access many systems it makes sense to keep them configured the
> > same. Not just at a package level but also the configuration level.
> > I've yet to do this at work but its on the to-do list. Then I just
> > have a git pull command in the login to keep my login the system
> > updated with my latest bash/vim or etc preferences. Putting /etc never
> > occurred to me though.
>
> The one thing I haven't done enough of is working with my dot files. I
> really want to create a setup where each host has its own history and
> potentially its own shell .rc files. As much as I sometimes run the
> same command on different systems it would be much more useful to keep
> history seperated out and appended (if I run multiple sessions on the
> same host).
>
> Anyone doing this now with any success?
>
>
> > My new web site that i am working on uses git on the backend. Document
> > content and resources for documents, such as document-specific images
> > are read directly from a git repository. Publishing is as easy. Just
> > push to the repository. Whole other kind of CMS. hehe
> >
> > -Chris
>
> Cool Chris! Sounds like a interesting use of git, heh and if you can
> say set "views" where internal users see the internal branch for
> testing and external users the master branch that could be very very
> handy.
>
> - Brian
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