It may sound weird to save /etc in some software like git, but let’s have a look why it does make sense: git is a revision control system that tracks changes and in case is able to revert them. Basically perfect for keeping track of our configuration files. You may not want to publish them on github as […]
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Managing /etc/ using git
The directory /etc/ is vital for our Linux systems as it contains (most of) the configuration files of the system. In case of trouble, it’s quite common, that you’ll visit this directory after browsing through syslog. Sometimes it would be nice to be able to really track down changes to see what happened over time; and this is […]
Bleeding edge BTRFS on top of a stable kernel
People asked me way too often on how to test new BTRFS features – a reason for me to do this article. It’s nothing special, but you have two possibilities to do it:
Moving to git
Hope you don’t mind that the side effects of the last LinuxDay in Berlin are kicking in now: I am starting to make use of the new ideas and hints I could gather while being there. In this case, I am talking about my version control stuff, the Gentoo-Overlay we are maintaining here which we did move from […]