Nathan, Sir - you are a prize Git. Abusive retorts aside, there is another very good use for Git.
As a fan of the Julia language, I report that Julia packages are held as repositories on Github. If you want to work with an unregistered package (which is usually a development project) you bring the package onto your system using a 'git clone'. I'm not really sure how you would then cope with a secure site with no Internet access. Last time I had to install RPM updates on a Government secure site we cloned the repository to a hard drive and brought it onto site. It is easy enough to make a local clone of a Git repo on a hard drive. I guess I should ask on the Julia list how to use that as a repo for packages. On 20 December 2017 at 15:43, Nathan Moore <ntmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure how well known the Software Carpentry folks are to this list. > Their tutorial on git is mature and clear. > > http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/ > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Chris Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org> wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 3:56:19 AM AEDT Adam DeConinck wrote: >> >> > I am also a fan of putting everything in source control. This is useful >> for >> > small scripts, but even more so (IMO) for configuration files. Being >> able >> > to track changes closely is a lifesaver when something about a system >> stops >> > working, and you have no idea what has changed. Source control has >> saved me >> > from the “this change is harmless!” problem many times. >> >> +1 for this - and also the related "etckeeper" which is packaged in >> Debian/ >> Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS. It hooks in to apt/yum and basically automates >> version control for your /etc directory. >> >> It defaults to using git (though others are possible, Ubuntu used to >> default >> to bzr for some bizare reason - sorry) and by default will do daily >> commits of >> /etc as well as before and after package manager changes (so you can see >> what >> files in /etc were changed by a particular package >> install/upgrade/removal). >> >> You can also drive it yourself, if you modify something in /etc then you >> can >> just (as root, obviously) do: >> >> /etc # etckeeper commit "Changed foo to bar in all config files" >> >> Which then lets you revert it should you decide that perhaps some foo's >> were >> actually needed. Of course you can still use the underlying VCS commands >> too, >> it's just providing a handy wrapper. >> >> All the best, >> Chris >> -- >> Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Nathan Moore > Mississippi River and 44th Parallel > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >
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