I’m currently tinkering at an OpenBSD system with a view to building myself a firewall and some other bits and bobs.
As this is fairly experimental (I’m an OpenBSD n00b, and I’ve already trashed my system 3 or 4 times), I wonder what experience others have of making part or all of the file system (I’m thinking in particular of /etc) a working copy of some VCS or other.
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Is this a good idea?
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I’m particularly interested in which VCS people have used for this. I’m considering subversion, bazaar, and git; this won’t be a shared repository, so I’m perhaps more interested in the basic vcs functionality than the distributed-or-not argument.
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I’d also like to hear about imagined or actual pitfalls people have found. I can imagine the preservation of file ownership and permissions needs careful thought!
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And, of course, any alternative approaches not involving VCS
Here you have a detailed revision about putting /etc/ under revision control using git.
Another step by step method.