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		isomorphic on Oct 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU RCS 5.9.1 There have been attempts to address git's shortcomings with respect to independent revision control of a single file: There is the "zit" project at http://git.oblomov.eu/zit ...although it wasn't ideal for me, and it doesn't look like it's been updated in a while. E.g., these days that should be on GitHub! RCS really fits well with the use-case of /etc configuration files. It's a pity that Git doesn't function very well for that particular case.

yrro on Oct 5, 2013 [–]

I've been using etckeeper on all my machines for a while. It is a wrapper around git + some hook scripts to preserve file permissions and the existence of empty directories. I can't imagine going back to an unmanaged /etc directory now.

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