Re: [RFC] userdeb - user accounts as .debs

[Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>]

Michael Stapelberg <michael+debian@stapelberg.de> writes:

>> Interesting idea though with fetching/storing configuration files via a
>> revision control system. I think it would be worthwhile investigating
>> the use of branches to capture the differences between hosts.
> I decided against that in the first place because the actual differences
> between the hosts are so minimal (at least in my case) that they can be better
> managed by source-ing the file in the zshrc or xsession for example. Just
> putting the files into a host-specific folder reduces maintenance. If you know
> a really easy solution to the following scenario, I’d be delighted to hear
> about it, though:
> - have one branch for each computer (let’s say i’d use 15 different ones)
> - make a change i want to have on every computer
> I would now commit it on the master-branch and then use git cherry-pick on
> each other branch. Is there a better way?
>
TopGit[0] should be able to do this. Your (merge) history would become
messy over time, though.

[0] http://repo.or.cz/w/topgit.git?a=blob;f=README