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What's the most creative or unconventional use of Git you've encountered? (programming.dev)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not very clever or rare, but extremely useful. On my persistent Unix/Linux boxes, I "git branch /etc" as soon as it comes up. Then all of my admin config gets committed whenever it's changed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Have you tried etckeeper? I haven't, but it's supposed to be an improvement over just using git in this usecase.