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Correct user names when tracking /etc/ in git repository and committing as root

We use git to track changes in /etc/ on our servers. Administrators work as root when changing files in /etc/, and thus their commits have author root This is not very satisfying since you cannot see which admin actually did the…
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good failover / high availability solutions for linux?

I have several cases where I need applications to be migrated from one server to another in the event of a failure (server hang or crash). On solaris we do this with VCS (Veritas Cluster Server). What options are available for Linux? Please indicate…
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Advice on Storing /etc in a VCS?

What is the easiest VCS to use to track /etc with? What are the challenges in storing the etc directory in version control, best practices? Should I use a centralized or distributed VCS?
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Where to store VCS version in RPM?

We're using Git as our VCS and RPMs for packaging. I'd like to store the Git hash a package was built from, but I'm not sure on the most appropriate place. There are a number of tags available to an RPM, however I don't see any for a VCS version…
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SvnServe On Windows With Active Directory Authentication

Right now my company is using a network share to communicate with the SVN repository. It's really slow so I'd like to switch to SVNSERVE. The main reason my company chose to go the filesystem route was because it made it easy to secure using our…
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How to upload project with Mercurial on Google Code?

I have create a local directory, and made some sub-directories and file in it. registered by project on code.google.com/hosting install Mercurial and did hg init copied the auto-generated password from Google, still don't know for what. Now how…
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is git any more or less effecient than subversion? (server load wise)

curious which source repo is more effecient in terms of using server resources, git or svn?
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Puppet vcsrepo git checkout branch

I am using puppet to clone a repo on an agent node. My site.pp contains node foobar{ vcsrepo{"home/user1/gitrepo1": provider=>git, source=>"https://github.com/foobar/foo.git", revision => "remotes/origin/bar", } } On the…
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Would You Host Source Control Server Like This?

I want to host an SVN server (or git or mercurial or whatever). I have two options: Install it on a small box sitting in the office closet, only connected to the LAN. Install it on a server at a data center in another state that has a publicly…
user59617
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How to merge Git and GitLab users

I am running a new GitLab 8.3 installation and I have imported my old/existing Git repositories. For commits that were created before switching to GitLab, it displays a link to that person's email address but not a link to their profile. Is there a…
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Veritas cluster 5.0 mp3 failover policies

Dear ServerFault users i've got a question here. My setup is following: Two node cluster, one service group which consists of 4 tiers of resources. Group is activated and probed on both nodes and basically it failovers normally. But i need one…
Nikolay Uloga
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How to set up Git server for windows xp

Probably this is very stupid question, but google dosen't helps. As I find out we should use gitweb and apache, but can't find any relevant tutorial about. Thanks.
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