From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw•cz>
To: "David Härdeman" <david@hardeman•nu>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using git to store /etc, redux
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:32:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070521183239.GB5082@efreet.light.src> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070519174815.GA5124@hardeman.nu>
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On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 19:48:15 +0200, David Härdeman wrote:
> I recently had the idea to store and track /etc using git. When googling
> the topic I came across the "Using git to store /etc" thread from the
> end of last year which provided some interesting details on what would
> be necessary.
>
> It seems the file metadata (owner, group, mode, xattrs, etc) was the big
> stumbling point, so I wrote up a tool over the last few days which
> allows the metadata to be stored in a separate file which can be stored
> along with the rest of the data in the repo (or separately).
>
> This is also useful for tripwire type checks and for other types of
> storage which drops some of the metadata (tar comes to mind)...
>
> The tool (metastore) is available from:
> git://git.hardeman.nu/metastore.git
>
> Not completely cleaned up yet (it lacks a real README and some Makefile
> targets) but I hope it might be useful to others (it sure is to me).
>
> Please CC me on any replies.
Have you looked at IsiSetup (http://www.isisetup.ch/, linked from
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools) yet? It's a front-end
to git specifically targeted for versioning configuration. From a quick
glance at it's web I don't see whether it already stores the metadata you
describe, but in either case it could be interesting for you.
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Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw•cz>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-21 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-19 17:48 Using git to store /etc, redux David Härdeman
2007-05-19 23:37 ` david
2007-05-20 9:48 ` David Härdeman
2007-05-21 18:32 ` Jan Hudec [this message]
2007-05-22 12:16 ` David Härdeman
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