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Comment by 🪐 michal_atlas

Re: "Experiment: /etc/ in Git"

In: s/Linux

there are quite a few projects which basically act as git over /etc but do some extra magic exactly to solve these little issues.

for example

— etckeeper

🪐 michal_atlas

Jan 29 · 7 months ago

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Experiment: /etc/ in Git — I’ve read about NixOS and I like the idea of putting OS configuration in Git. But I’m not sold for the package management of NixOS, it seems like kind of wrapper for traditional Linux? I’m not fan of wrappers as they usually are lacking some functionality of wrapped environment or simplify things too much and lacks flexibility in result. But is there anything preventing me from creating Git repository for whole /etc/? I’ve decided to test it on my Arch machine. The...

💬 Aelspire · 7 comments · 1 like · Jan 09 · 7 months ago