On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:34 PM, ilya <i...@total-knowledge.com> wrote:
> It is generally possible, though I'd recommend making your git repo out of > /etc, not /, since this is what you mostly want to track, and managing > .gitignore of > the whole FS will be too painful. > One thing git does not track though, is file ownership. This might be a > problem for > some files. > > Git permission problem can be solve like this (Not the best, but still usable): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3207728/retaining-file-permissions-with-git On 06/06/12 12:57, Eli Billauer wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd just like to get your input before I do something stupid. The > > idea, anyhow, is to create a git repository on my system's root > > directory, and add many of the system's configuration files (e.g. some > > of /etc/) for tracking. > > > > This sounds a bit bizarre even to me, but my question is: Do you see > > anything bad that could happen? > > > > I can see a few advantages: > > > > 1. Keep track of my changes in the configuration files over time > > > > 2. Easily spot what has changed, if something breaks for no apparent > > reason (after some well-meaning automatic utility "helps me out") > > > > 3. Possible to run a cronjob on "git commit -a", maintaining a history > > of these files (and makes it easy to fall back to a known set) > > > > 4. More freedom to hack these files to solve a problem, knowing that > > the "working set" it there to fall back to. > > > > 5. Migrating to a new computer by cloning the repository and > > selectively patching the new system. > > > > And some disadvantages: > > > > 1. Opening a security loophole somehow (?) > > > > 2. Possibly exposing files containing secrets (otherwise readable by > > root only, e.g. /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and other password files) > > > > 3. Running git as root > > > > 4. Mess up the system somehow because git wasn't meant to handle > > sensitive files (?) > > > > > > > > > > So what do you say? A bad idea? A brilliant idea? Everyone's doing it > > and nobody told me? > > > > TAI, > > > > Eli > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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