Re: Using mercurial to manage files in /etc on multiple systems

2024-06-13 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide via Mercurial
Chris Green writes: > Is there a way to manage the files which are the same across multiple > systems and, at the same time, managing the special cases? You can create named branches for the special cases and `merge` default into these when you do general changes. If you happen to do a change i

Using mercurial to manage files in /etc on multiple systems

2024-06-13 Thread Chris Green
I manage a motley mix of Linux based systems, mostly on my home LAN but there are also two or three remote systems. These systems run various versions of xubuntu, debian (Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black) and a couple of others. I use mercurial to manage files such as postfix's main.cf and /etc/