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[Neal Becker]

Mathieu Clabaut wrote:

> 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
cp -al /etc /etc.hg

[root at nbecker1 nbecker]# etckeeper init /etc.hg
Not a directory: --exit-on-error