Configuration File Version Control

Initializing a new machine

Here's how to set up the version control on a new system.

1. Initialize the /etc directory as a Bazaar repository.

bzr init /etc

2. Make the 'add' and 'status' subcommands ignore all files by default.

bzr ignore '*'

3. Manually add the files you want to track:

bzr add /etc/network/interfaces
bzr add /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
 ...

4. Commit for the first time:

cd /etc
bzr commit -m "Record configuration files"