[rancid] rancid and git?

[heasley]

Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 01:14:02PM -0800, Thomison, Lee:
> Good morning,
> 
> I understand that there is a fork of rancid for git at dotwaffle, however, I'm a bit confused.  The README in the official shrubbery.net package says it supports git, but ./configure says no.
> 
> I have downloaded the 'official' rancid source from:
> 
> ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-3.5.1.tar.gz
> 
> Does it now support git also?

yes, but the manner in which it is implemented between the two is not the
same, iiuc.  i think that dotwaffle uses one git repo for the entire set
of rancid groups, instead of a git repo per-rancid group.

> 
> 
> In the README in that package is the following:
> 
> ...maintain CVS (or Subversion or git) controlled copies of router configs.
> 
> git                         Code revision system, an alternative to cvs.  Use the configure
>                               option --with-git to configure for git.
> 
> However:
> 
> ./configure -help
> 
> shows no entry for -with-git.
> 
> Doing a
> 
> ./configure -with-git
> 
> throws a WARNING: unrecognized options -with-git
> 
> does stock git support git or no?
> 
> Thanks!

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