[LinuxUsers] Interesting use of git

[Brian Friday]

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<manis at digital39.com> 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