Linux Distros with CVS/RCS for Config Files?

bergeron76 asks: "Does anyone know of a Linux distributions or modifications to a Linux d system that implement a CVS[like] structure for control over system configuration files (/etc, /usr/etc, and so on)? Personally, I'd love to see a distro that featured a native CVS/RCS control mechanism for editing system configuration files. Does anything like this currently exist? If not, is anyone working in this direction?"

Comments

An old idea for modern times...

[Deagol]

I think it was OpenVMS (fuzzy memories of a freshman computer class) that had version control built into the filesystem. I'm amazed that this hasn't been introduced into the more popular filesystem(s) yet. I've wished for it on many occasions.

Or am I just being impatient? Will Reiser4 provide this capability?

Re:Nothing is stopping you from doing this.

[Ed Avis]

In general, directories ending in '.d' are magic - a program looks at every file in the directory, rather than expecting a certain fixed set of filenames. For example under init.d for the various runlevels every file is run in sequence.

The '.d' on the directory name tells you not to put random extra files in there. Apart from those directories, you can follow the rule that extra files won't break anything.