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Manage dotfile configuration with subversion

I've been using Subversion on my main home machine (Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope) to manage those pesky bits of my profile under my home directory, /etc file changes, keep a history of installed packages, and so forth. Every so often I use svnadmin to dump the repo to a USB key in case I need to rebuild these if the system crashes and needs to be re-installed.

For file management on linux with subversion, fsvs works like a charm.
http://fsvs.tigris.org/
and
http://doc.fsvs-software.org/doxygen-gif/index.html -> Modules