Re: removing rcs?

[Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso <sdaoden%gmail.com@localhost>]

Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:
 |I've considered gitifying my /etc, but that's one of the few places
 |where RCS actually wins over git: git insists on managing the directory
 |as a whole, rather than managing each file independently.  Does hg
 |permit managing each file independently, or do you just accept tying
 |them all together?

fwiw, git(1) in that sense of yours is only a front-end, the
actual database can (or could) also be managed directly, see [1]
for a pretty good first-look into that.
(The database idea itself may have been inspired by [2], but
i don't know.)

  [1] 
<https://github.com/progit/progit/blob/master/en/09-git-internals/01-chapter9.markdown>
  [2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venti>

--steffen

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• Subject: Re: removing rcs?
• From: Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
• Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:40:17 -0400 (EDT)

>>> Also, AFAIK we don't have alternatives for /var/backups/ in base
>> I was going to say that too.  Haven't you screwed up your /etc
>> before and needed /var/backups/etc?

I don't think I have; indeed, I don't think I knew /var/backups/etc
existed.  (I find on my machines /var/backups exists but is empty.)

> I have /etc/.hg :)

I've considered gitifying my /etc, but that's one of the few places
where RCS actually wins over git: git insists on managing the directory
as a whole, rather than managing each file independently.  Does hg
permit managing each file independently, or do you just accept tying
them all together?

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