On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:01:11PM -0400, iiijjjiii <iiijjjiii@gmail.com> w=
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> I would like to use git to keep revision histories of my home and etc=20
> directories.

First, git is to track content, not permissions. So it is not the right
tool.

Second, you can try etckeeper which does this on top of git.

But still please keep in mind that you may have serious problems, like:
if you get a conflict in /etc/passwd, you may not be able to login,
etc...