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

[Adam Turoff <ziggy@panix.com>]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:45:13AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> Are there any advantages to use CVS for this kind of stuff?  All I can
> think of is that it would let me store the files on separate
> partitions.

There are a couple of benefits to CVS over RCS for /etc type config files.

First, the config files can be stored on another server.  This may not
be interesting in a single-server setup, but it can be used to keep
multiple server configs in sync in a larger setup.

Second, an entire configuration can committed/restored at once.
Although this can done with a series of individual operations with RCS,
it's a little "cleaner" to tag/commit/restore a set of related changes
all at once.  Doubly so when you're committing and tagging a series of
changes to make a single fix/add a single feature to a system (e.g. add
a service and update firewall rules to open up the required ports).

For a single home system or a personal workstation, I don't know that it 
makes much difference.  The issues are more interesting with multiple
machines, constant modifications or a network/cluster configuration.

Z.

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