I have a problem. It's not a unique or novel problem; I understand it'sone that a lot of people have. My problem is that over time my emailinbox quietly winds up getting used as my to-do tracker, basicallyregardless of how I'm theoretically trying to keep track of this stuff.I leave messages in my inbox to remind me to do things, and the latestgo-round of this has now reached the point where I email myself notesabout things I want

One of the reasons that I'm not too enthused with various schemes to put /etc under version control is that they don't really give me what Ireally want out of the whole exercise.

First, let's assume that you have somehow divided your /etc repositoryup into a lot of separate modules in orderto keep things straight. Without loss of generality we can look onlyat the evolution of a single module on a single system over time. Theproblem is that you really have three separate