I just found this nice blogpost on planet larry. Since git is my favourite vcs i found it quite usefull. This way you'll never miss any changes and can revert any mistakenly changed files.
In other news: There finally will be a book about git! The release it scheduled for december 2008 but amazon says it will ship on 15th of september. Anyway i allready preordered and am excited. Walking through the manpages sometimes is a pain in the ass so probably this will make it easier to dig into git's "secret" features.
Update: I changed the cronscript to reflect the changed files:
#!/bin/bash MYDATE=`date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"` echo "\n" >> /var/log/etc_git.log echo "etc_git - $MYDATE" | tee -a /var/log/etc_git.log pushd /etc git add . git diff --name-status HEAD > /tmp/gitstatus git commit -a -F /tmp/gitstatus | tee -a /var/log/etc_git.log popd
