Managing system configuration with hg?

[Andreas Niederl]

Ed Santiago wrote:
>   >>            status=$(hg status)
>   >>            [...]
>   >>                hg status | sed -e 's/^/  /'
>   >
>   >What about running hg status just once and replacing the second call
>   >with a simple echo command?
>   >
>   >echo "$status" | sed -e 's/^/  /'
> 
> The newlines will be lost:
> 
>     $ printf "a b c\ndef\n"
>     a b c
>     def
>     $ foo=$(!!);echo $foo
>     a b c def
> 
> It's possible to work around this in several ways, eg $IFS or
> by doing the indentation in the status=$(...) itself.  Each
> has its tradeoffs, and this was just a quick hack anyway.
> I've spent more time writing this email than on the script
> itself.  I wasn't striving for perfection :-)

I remember vaguely about it. I must have forgotten most of these little
annoyances in /bin/(sh|bash) since I do my scripting with zsh.

As for your system configuration management, do you use it on a per-host
basis or do you share parts of your configuration among different hosts?
In the latter case, what's your strategy on separating local from global
configuration files?


Regards,
Andi