Using mercurial for configuration files version control

Snidely snidely.too at gmail.com
Thu Nov 25 13:29:09 CST 2010



On Nov 25, 11:16 am, Snidely <snidely.... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 25, 7:02 am, Jouni Airaksinen <Jouni.Airaksi... at descom.fi>
> wrote:
>
[...]
> > you'd have to setup the symlinks manually, but atleast you won't "kill"
> > your servers that easily.
>
> Could the symlink step be automated with a simple makefile or script?
> Then the makefile/script also is tracked in the DVCS?

And for conf files where "$include file.$HOSTNAME" couldn't be used,
the makefilee might do a "cat file.$HOSTNAME >> file", and otherwise
helping to address Vadym's concerns about remembering to propagate
things.

/dps



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