Betr: Re: Strategy for managing files in /etc, suggestions?

[Alban Hertroys]

"Mercurial" <mercurial-bounces at mercurial-scm.org> wrote on 17-12-2020 
10:41:02:

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 08:24:26AM +0100, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm thinking that it would be an excellent idea to keep track of
> > > changes I do to system configuration files in /etc, I try to keep
> > > these to a minimum but some are inevitable.

(...)

> Yet another way to consider.
> 
> Thanks everyone, I'll go and scratch my head a bit and decide how to
> do it, and more likely to get it right[ish] with the help from here.

I have been playing with the idea of using a named branch per host and 
then merge global changes between them.

To my situation that's not particularly applicable, I only sort-of 
maintain a few systems, so I never had much incentive to test that out. 
This seems the right time to mention it.

Regards,
Alban Hertroys.

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