On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > This side-steps your actual question but are you sure you want to > version files in your /etc directory with Subversion?
No ;) > Subversion does not version file permissions. You may end up with > sensitive files being readable by users other than root (e.g. files > such as SSH private host keys). I'm only versioning 'public' / safe files. And SSH private keys aren't in /etc AFAIK, they're in home dirs. But perhaps there's a better way to manage /etc.