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Date:      Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:23:47 +0000
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ryan Libby <rlibby@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 70e64ba44941 - main - release.sh: Update GITROOT URL
Message-ID:  <20201230222347.GF1206@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202012302118.0BULIuGd083574@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <CAHgpiFy2UrXeC5k=qUWEdusgGK_4M-mbi%2B9QKTpsteJFyNjeog@mail.gmail.com> <202012302118.0BULIuGd083574@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 01:18:56PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> First take your self OUT of developer mode, and into operations
> and administration.
>=20
> Take for example all the files in /etc, these files can easily
> at present often be tracked back to exactly what release installed
> them cause the $FreeBSD$ points you at it.  These files are often
> modified by local administrators, and with out knowing what version
> they started out it is a crap shoot to ever figure it out unless
> the local mods are minor and you get lucky.
>=20
> Contractors are some times hired to go in and upgrade or clean up
> after someone else did work, and not having this information and
> telling them to go dig in git to try and figure out the state of
> there system is pretty much a non-started, well at least it is for
> me.
>=20

This, IMHO, is a problem best solved with some sort of system
configuration management tool (cfengine, puppet, custom management
scripts, whatever your flavor of Kool-Aid is on that day), and not by
a version control system, distributed or otherwise.

Glen
(Said with my sysadmin hat on)


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