[Beowulf] Thoughts on git?

[Nathan Moore]

Not sure how well known the Software Carpentry folks are to this list.
Their tutorial on git is mature and clear.

http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 3:56:19 AM AEDT Adam DeConinck wrote:
>
> > I am also a fan of putting everything in source control. This is useful
> for
> > small scripts, but even more so (IMO) for configuration files. Being able
> > to track changes closely is a lifesaver when something about a system
> stops
> > working, and you have no idea what has changed. Source control has saved
> me
> > from the “this change is harmless!” problem many times.
>
> +1 for this - and also the related "etckeeper" which is packaged in Debian/
> Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS.   It hooks in to apt/yum and basically automates
> version control for your /etc directory.
>
> It defaults to using git (though others are possible, Ubuntu used to
> default
> to bzr for some bizare reason - sorry) and by default will do daily
> commits of
> /etc as well as before and after package manager changes (so you can see
> what
> files in /etc were changed by a particular package
> install/upgrade/removal).
>
> You can also drive it yourself, if you modify something in /etc then you
> can
> just (as root, obviously) do:
>
> /etc # etckeeper commit "Changed foo to bar in all config files"
>
> Which then lets you revert it should you decide that perhaps some foo's
> were
> actually needed.  Of course you can still use the underlying VCS commands
> too,
> it's just providing a handy wrapper.
>
> All the best,
> Chris
> --
>  Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
>
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