CVS for kernel config?

"Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudelgt.rr.com> writes:

> I am in the process of moving to an amd64 system and I
anticipate a
> lot of experimentation/tuning with the kernel.
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to set up CVS (or
preferably
> Subversion) so that I would be able to back up to any
previous
> configuration.  It seems that if I just kept the
.config file in cvs
> and checked it in and out as needed that this might
work.

I suggest good old RCS.  Its small, simple, and easy to work
with.

just emerge app-text/rcs then:

$ co -l .config
$ vi .config
$ ci -u .config

The revisions is kept as delta in a single file .config,v
optionally
in a subdirecdory RCS if that exists, you can even have RCS
be a
symlink to som other location if you like.

--
 Christer

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