Re: /etc under svk

[Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 06:36:04PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> a tip to share:
> 
>    # Install svk
>    apt-get install svk
>    
>    # Initialize a depot in /root/.svk
>    svk depotmap --init
>    
>    # Import /etc making it a working copy
>    svk import --to-checkout //etc /etc
>    
>    # Make your depot not that readable
>    chmod -R go-rwx ~/.svk
>    
>    # Remove volatile files from revision control
>    cd /etc
>    svk rm -K adjtime ld.so.cache
>    
>    ...and voilà, you have /etc/ under revision control, without CVS or .svn
>    or {arch} files around. The syntax of svk is just like the syntax of
>    svn, of which it's a distributed extension.

Also, if instead of just using svk import one mirrors the //etc svk path from
a repository somewhere accessible, one can use svk push/pull to keep a copy on
a server, where a fault in the local hard disk will not destroy the contents.

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