Jeff Abrahamson on Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:02:45 -0500


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Re: Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 24

  • From: Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>
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  • Subject: Re: Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 24
  • Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:22:24 -0500
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:36:27AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Marsee Henon <marsee@oreilly.com> -----
> [snip]
> ...and use CVS and RCS to track revisions to system files.
> [snip]

Can this be done without putting all of /etc under CVS, for example?
Maybe that's a reasonable thing to do, just feels like overkill most
of the time.

That's actually related to my long-standing desire to have a
poor-man's netapp snapshotting going on, so I can get back old copies
of files, within reason, even in directories that are otherwise under
CVS control.

-- 
 Jeff

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