two factors for switching to Mercurial

Emanuele Aina emanuele.aina at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 16:06:34 CDT 2008


Ondrej Certik sottolineò:

> One argument for tracking empty directories is so that you can track
> /etc in a mercurial repo (and do stuff like "hg clean") without
> additional software to fix the empty dirs. The empty dirs in /etc are
> needed, otherwise some programs/daemons in Debian stop working.

Yes, but to correctly track /etc you still have to use an external
program (as the excellent etckeeper), as no SCM will store the full set
of permissions info (users, groups, modes, etc.), so at least this
argument is moot. :D 

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