I am not a git master so there is probably better ways to use etckeeper. I really just use etckeeper to see the diff between a file/directory on one machine and some other box.(NB: Normally I would not use a bug tracker for one product to talk about another project but rich might have a better way for both of us. Plus it might help someone else who thinks vcsh + /etc)

I set it up so that all of my machines push to a machine specific branch on the remote repository.

host1234 # git remote add keptetcs blah@blah
host1234 # git push keptetcs master:host1234

hostXYZ # git remote add keptetcs blah@blah
hostXYZ # git push keptetcs master:hostXYZ

Then I can see the differences:


hostXYZ # git fetch --all
hostXYZ # git diff keptetcs:host1234 daemon/daemon.conf

I have never used any actual git commands to change the files under etc. Most of the time a manual review of git diff ... is enough to remind me what I need to do. If there is a big difference I generate a patch and then apply the patch manually just because I am timid of screwing things up:


hostXYZ # git diff keptetcs:host1234 daemon/daemon.conf > /tmp/daemonconf.patch

How to manage /etc files #110

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