Added 1.7.x branch to Elgg Multisite

Recently, I moved the Elgg Multisite project over to Github. The master of this branch is targeted at the 1.8 branch of Elgg, however, a number of you have requested that the 1.7.x branch be maintained to support the continuation of the 1.7 branch of Elgg. So, as requested I’ve created a 1.7 branch of […]

Marcus Povey

Recently, I moved the Elgg Multisite project over to Github. The master of this branch is targeted at the 1.8 branch of Elgg, however, a number of you have requested that the 1.7.x branch be maintained to support the continuation of the 1.7 branch of Elgg. So, as requested I’ve created a 1.7 branch of […]

Reducing the stress of configuration management with Git

I have previously written about using Git to add revision history to existing rsync backups. Having performed a number of configuration changes and system upgrades recently, I have found another use of Git which has proven invaluable. It’s a fairly obvious hack, but it turns out that turning selected configuration directories (for example /etc/apache2/ and […]

Marcus Povey

I have previously written about using Git to add revision history to existing rsync backups. Having performed a number of configuration changes and system upgrades recently, I have found another use of Git which has proven invaluable. It’s a fairly obvious hack, but it turns out that turning selected configuration directories (for example /etc/apache2/ and […]

Pondering: Using Git to add history to backups

tl;dr: Use Git to selectively add revision history to existing rsync backups. As anyone knows who has used computers for any length of time knows, hardware failure and data loss is inevitable. Having gone through several hard disk crashes, UPS and power failures and random acts of sleepless root console typing I have become especially […]

Marcus Povey

tl;dr: Use Git to selectively add revision history to existing rsync backups. As anyone knows who has used computers for any length of time knows, hardware failure and data loss is inevitable. Having gone through several hard disk crashes, UPS and power failures and random acts of sleepless root console typing I have become especially […]