Stupid end-user tricks: darcs for /etc and /boot

[gonzlobo]

Wow, I could've used that back in my Gentoo days. They have this thing
called etc-update that will *completely* hose your system (if you're not
careful).

On 6/19/06, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Having grown tired of hand-recovering from a system damaged by a
> combination of my cluelessness and some software's arrogance at adjusting
> things at random (I'm looking at whichever package constantly modifies my
> menu.lst for GRUB here....), I found an amazingly simple way to keep track
> of changes to my configuration files, boot files, etc. that is simpler and
> faster than using tar, et al to make backups.
>
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