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[Mathieu Clabaut]

On Dec 10, 2007 10:05 AM, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:

> 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/<http://kitenet.net/%7Ejoey/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.


In the meanwhile, I've done a quick port of etckeeper to hg. The mercurial
repo is here : http://hg.sharesource.org/etckeeperhg

I'd like to do some more testing and doc update before submitting patches
upstream.

-mathieu
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