On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 19:48:15 +0200, David H=C3=A4rdeman wrote:
quoted text
> I recently had the idea to store and track /etc using git. When googling=
=20
quoted text
> the topic I came across the "Using git to store /etc" thread from the=20
> end of last year which provided some interesting details on what would=20
> be necessary.
>=20
> It seems the file metadata (owner, group, mode, xattrs, etc) was the big=
=20
quoted text
> stumbling point, so I wrote up a tool over the last few days which=20
> allows the metadata to be stored in a separate file which can be stored=
=20
quoted text
> along with the rest of the data in the repo (or separately).
>=20
> This is also useful for tripwire type checks and for other types of=20
> storage which drops some of the metadata (tar comes to mind)...
>=20
> The tool (metastore) is available from:=20
> git://git.hardeman.nu/metastore.git
>=20
> Not completely cleaned up yet (it lacks a real README and some Makefile=
=20
quoted text
> targets) but I hope it might be useful to others (it sure is to me).
>=20
> Please CC me on any replies.

Have you looked at IsiSetup (http://www.isisetup.ch/, linked from
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools) yet? It's a front-end
to git specifically targeted for versioning configuration. From a quick
glance at it's web I don't see whether it already stores the metadata you
describe, but in either case it could be interesting for you.

--=20
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>