config – Data Science, Data Analytics and Machine Learning Consulting in Koblenz Germany https://www.rene-pickhardt.de Extract knowledge from your data and be ahead of your competition Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:12:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Version control of your Linux config with git https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/version-control-of-your-linux-config-with-git/ https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/version-control-of-your-linux-config-with-git/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:05:37 +0000 http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/?p=1840 I was just reading through the recent notes of Heinrich which I can recommend to read as well as his old notes. When I stumbled upon the note called Monitor /etc/ using git I was confused. Why would one do this?
So I talked to Heinrich and he said:

“Well you want to monitor changes of your system config. You want to be able to revert them and you don’t want to care about this when you do something.”

I really liked this and thinks its so useful and a smart idea that I wanted to share it with you. Just keep in mind that you don’t push the git repository to some public space since the config files might include a lot of passwords. Also look out for his .gitignore in his case the printer does a lot of automatic changes and is thus ignored. You might have similar settings for your configs.
I hope sharing this was useful for you!

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