On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 01:18:56PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > First take your self OUT of developer mode, and into operations > and administration. > > Take for example all the files in /etc, these files can easily > at present often be tracked back to exactly what release installed > them cause the $FreeBSD$ points you at it. These files are often > modified by local administrators, and with out knowing what version > they started out it is a crap shoot to ever figure it out unless > the local mods are minor and you get lucky. > > Contractors are some times hired to go in and upgrade or clean up > after someone else did work, and not having this information and > telling them to go dig in git to try and figure out the state of > there system is pretty much a non-started, well at least it is for > me. >
This, IMHO, is a problem best solved with some sort of system configuration management tool (cfengine, puppet, custom management scripts, whatever your flavor of Kool-Aid is on that day), and not by a version control system, distributed or otherwise. Glen (Said with my sysadmin hat on)
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