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I'd like to keep some of the folders in my /etc/ dir git-revised, cause I'm quite new to server administration and am constantly messing around in my /etc/nginx/ and /etc/bind/ directories.

I've heard of people git-revising their either /etc/ directories, but that seems a bit like overkill, as at this point I'm only messing in those 2 subdirectories.

The problem I'm having is that if I sudo my git operations, I don't have the right pubkeys to push to my remote repo (bitbucket). But if I don't sudo, I need to mess around with all the permissions (again, not very pro at this).

Does anyone know best practices for managing their configs? or how I should solve this problem?

Thanks, Dean.

PS. It's Ubuntu 12.04, Git, nginx, bind9, amazon aws, bitbucket...

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  • I could symlink them into my dropbox instead... Is that a dumb idea? Commented Sep 2, 2012 at 12:18

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Make it hierarchical.

Have an ordinary user use bitbucket as the remote and store the repo in their home directory. Then have /etc/ use the repo in the homedir as the remote.

In other words...

  • Git repo used by root in /etc/ has remote of /home/dean-rather/git/etc/.
  • Git repo used by dean-rather in /home/dean-rather/git/etc/ has remote of git://[email protected]/dean-rather/etc.git.
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  • ok giving that a try.. Commented Sep 2, 2012 at 11:00
  • having heaps of trouble with making a repo to begin with... cd /etc/nginx sudo git init sudo git add ./* sudo git init -a -m "initial commit" sudo git branch nginx -> error: fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master' ... sudo git branch -> blank.. Commented Sep 2, 2012 at 11:17
  • To create a branch use git checkout -b <newbranch>. Commented Sep 3, 2012 at 17:22

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