[Klug-general] rsync woes, or, version control for web-developers?

[Mike Evans]

On 14/11/11 05:21, James Morris wrote:
>
> I'm wondering though if git is not overkill. I don't really need a
> long history of versions, but having some history will certainly prove
> useful. And the history might eventually need pruning due to space
> limits.
I've not seen stats for git, but generally version control systems keep 
only one version of the file (modern ones keep the latest version) and 
then everything else is just backward diffs from that.  I think these 
may also be compressed.  As a result keeping all the history is 
remarkably cheap for text files.  If it turns out that you want to ditch 
versions before a certain date that is usually possible.

I personally think that the pluses outweigh the minuses in favour of 
version control.  In fact I have often wondered why linux does not come 
with all control files and scripts in /etc under version control by 
default.  It would have saved many a sysadmin's hair by now.