[kwlug-disc] etckeeper, and not - prepping for the day I inevitably shoot myself in the foot?

[Paul Nijjar]

What is wrong with one of the graphical git browsers? qgit is okay for
visualization. 

Are you looking for something like rabbitvcs ? That has some
integration with desktop environment file managers (but I do not
recall which file manager you use). 

One issue with these tools is that although they might show you
history, you generally do not want to run GUI tools as root. Thus you
would not want to use these tools to revert changes.

- Paul 


On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 11:09:50AM -0400, B.S. wrote:
> So, I can see value in keeping everything in a directory in git, for the day
> I change some config file when trying something, decide that was the wrong
> thing to try, and want to revert but forget what I did. (e.g. Some obscure
> option setting I can't recall the specific syntax for.)
> 
> To that end, I've installed etckeeper, and will just let that run.
> 
> Outside of /etc, I can 'git init' any given directory, and duplicate
> etckeeper's daily cron git commits in some fashion. (cd favdir ; while true
> ; git -am add ; git commit; sleep 24hours ; done; )
> 
> I don't use git enough to ever be able to remember command lines, so could
> appreciate the idea of a git aware file browser gui that understands working
> backwards / forwards in file versions. I see, for example, git-gui, which
> will spawn gitk as desired, and google quickly reveals many other gui
> candidates. Also cool is sshfs'ing and running such gui on local system
> against remote non-gui server. (Not looking to replicate such git's / there
> is no git server there.)
> 
> What am I?
> 
> i.e. What facilities / search terms am I blindly groping in the dark
> towards?
> 
> I am going to shoot myself in the foot eventually, and will want to revert
> to a prior file version. Assume no backups. (i.e. I could daily rsync /
> snapshot to dated file/directory versions, but that's just another form of
> what I'm already asking about.) K.I.S.S. / easy viewing of prior file
> versions, applies.
> 
> Suggestions? / thoughts? / links? / thanks.
> 
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