Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control
> > I do not see how this solves the metadata issue if you use a version
> > control system directly without the smartness etckeeper brings to the
> > table e.g. by using its .gitignore settings.
> >
> > svk is an attempt to inject the notion of being a decentralized scm into
> > a centralized one (which svn happens to be) ... that has nothing to do
> > with putting /etc under version control
> >
>
> metadata = data stored in .svn/ ?
Yes. In this case all the metadata stored by SVN.
Certainly there is more metadata which is nowadays simply ignored by many VCS, partially due to the discrepancies between different platforms and there implementation of, say, file permissions, partially out of negligence or lack of a *proper* solution.
Also, as far as I understand SVK it's using only one Subversion library, not the whole thing. It's not just a distributed SVN in that sense ... also see: <http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/SVKAntiFUD>
// Oliver
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