On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:48:35PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I would like to set up repository with some files from /etc in it. Basically
> every time I come to edit a file in /etc I would like to add it to the
> repository so I have a record of changes to it.
Create a repository for the particular files you want to edit. Create a
working directory, where you will edit these files. Do your checkouts and
checkins and edits in the working directory. Create symlinks in /etc, leading
to the files in your working directory. Any time you want to edit a new file
from /etc, move it into the repository and create a new symlink in /etc.
Voila!
Be well,
Zack
>
> I tried this wholesale (by importing the whole of etc and then trying to check
> it out again) but it wouldn't work. In frustration I deleted etc and then
> checked out. All I can say is I am glad I had a backup - I had forgotten
> about no symlinks.
>
> Is there an approach where I don't have to delete the directory before making
> it a working copy? (especially since I don't necessarily want to import the
> whole of /etc in to a repository but only the files that I am going to edit).
>
> One possible approach I was considering was make an empty repository (that I
> will use for the /etc directory) and then checking it out into a dummy
> directory and then moving the .svn directory that results into /etc, then svn
> adding any file I want to include. I had a look at a .svn directory created
> this way and it doesn't appear to have anything related to the actual
> directory its in. Would this work?
>
> --
> Alan Chandler
> alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
>
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