Re: Need to version control entire root file system

Probably not something Arch will handle efficiently today...

There may be some add-ons to subversion to let you do this, but I don't
recall the details.

Anyway, this kind of use does not really need distributed SCM so I don't
feel guilty saying use Subversion for it...

On 6/22/07, Worley, Chris B <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Not user's home directories, but everything else; and no version control
> meta-data cruft left lying around inside my image.
>
> The base "image" is kept offline.  I want to version control changes to
> every file and directory in that offline image.
>
> Ascii files need explicit diffs, binary files can just be flagged as
> changed.  I need to be able to view which files changed at any check-in
> point, what files are different now from the last check-in, how the
> ASCII files changed between any two versions, and roll-back the entire
> image to any previous version.
>
> Mostly, I need the diff repository to be outside the image; I don't want
> hidden version control directories in every directory of my file
> system... I need the version control meta-data kept elsewhere (this
> image gets provisioned onto systems).
>
> Will Arch do this?  If not, can anybody recommend a good version control
> utility (or maybe one that is extensible) for this?
>
> Note that I use "image" to mean "root file system", and not a disk image
> per se; something you could chroot to.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris