Gentoo

[D. Hageman]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Luke-Jr wrote:
>>
>> of course, "essential" is highly subjective.  With the current vast expanse
>> of hard drive space, it can make sense to keep not just /etc/ but your
>> whole damn system in a subversion respository.  svn as backup software!
>
> Haha, maybe-- but I'd prefer that be done on the filesystem level when you do
> that.
>
> The problem with Subversion for this, and why it won't work too great outside
> of configs, is that it doesn't store owner/group or permissions at all.

It may not do it automatically, but it can do it in a very unobtrusive 
manner by setting a property on the file.  I see a 6 or so line shell 
script that will get subversion to do what is desired.

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