Re: Using subversion to manage system config files

# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Toby Johnson
# on Monday 21 June 2004 03:47 pm:

>The only downside is having .svn directories in your "live" directories,
>but that isn't a problem for me. If it is for you, you will indeed need
>to keep them in a separate location and "svn export" to copy them over.

I've been using symlinks to merge multiple repositories into a single tree for
my perl modules.

Take a look at
http://ericwilhelm.homeip.net/svn/Module-Subversion-Juggle/

trunk/data/notes/system_scheme.txt explains (somewhat) what the scheme is
trunk/data/scripts/hop_to_links would do the linking for you (be careful
though)

I've also started using it for my ~/.bin/ directory as well, since I can keep
everything in /usr/local/svn_hop/ and maintain code in my ~/.bin/ directory
across multiple systems (with multiple usernames.)

I've been considering doing this with my /etc/ files (trouble with the rc?.d
directories though?)

The namesake perl module Module::Subversion::Juggle may never exist, but feel
free to poke around at the bleeding edge scripts.

--Eric

-- 
"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe 
they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting 
their time."
                                        --George Bernard Shaw
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