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[Mads Kiilerich]

Emanuele Aina wrote:
> It would be great if someone extended etckeeper[1] to support Mercurial 
> other than GIT, as it handles the file permissions which are veery 
> important on directories like etc.
>
> [1] http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/etckeeper/
>   

Tracking file permissions seems to be a common request - or at least
topic of discussion.
See for example
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue367
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue816

A generic hg extension for tracking file permissions could perhaps solve
more problems than just trucking /etc, and for tracking /etc it would
require less functionality from tools like etckeeper.

/Mads