[kwlug-disc] etckeeper, and not - prepping for the day I inevitably shoot myself in the foot?

[Alex K]

Back in the good old days of Solaris 10 you could launch Nautilus (Gnome 2
file manager) and see a slider on top of your current folder window, if
that folder had any saved snapshots on ZFS. You could just slide it back
and see the contents of the folder as it was preserved in one of those
snapshots.

That's the easiest and coolest representation of the snapshots that I've
ever seen.

Perhaps someone implemented a similar thing for your file system with one
of the Linux file managers.

Alex.

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 11:09 AM, B.S. <bs27975.2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, I can see value in keeping everything in a directory in git, for the
> day I change some config file when trying something, decide that was the
> wrong thing to try, and want to revert but forget what I did. (e.g. Some
> obscure option setting I can't recall the specific syntax for.)
>
> To that end, I've installed etckeeper, and will just let that run.
>
> Outside of /etc, I can 'git init' any given directory, and duplicate
> etckeeper's daily cron git commits in some fashion. (cd favdir ; while true
> ; git -am add ; git commit; sleep 24hours ; done; )
>
> I don't use git enough to ever be able to remember command lines, so could
> appreciate the idea of a git aware file browser gui that understands
> working backwards / forwards in file versions. I see, for example, git-gui,
> which will spawn gitk as desired, and google quickly reveals many other gui
> candidates. Also cool is sshfs'ing and running such gui on local system
> against remote non-gui server. (Not looking to replicate such git's / there
> is no git server there.)
>
> What am I?
>
> i.e. What facilities / search terms am I blindly groping in the dark
> towards?
>
> I am going to shoot myself in the foot eventually, and will want to revert
> to a prior file version. Assume no backups. (i.e. I could daily rsync /
> snapshot to dated file/directory versions, but that's just another form of
> what I'm already asking about.) K.I.S.S. / easy viewing of prior file
> versions, applies.
>
> Suggestions? / thoughts? / links? / thanks.
>
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