Everyone keeps their /etc in git, right? Naturally I made my own script for it. (Based on something I found somewhere.) Works on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Debian-, RedHat- and Alpine-likes. Setup: # cd /etc # git init # git config user.name root # git config user.email "root@`hostname`" # chmod 700 .git You can add directories to DIRS to include them in the git repo. This is done automatically for the package-/etc-dirs on FreeBSD and NetBSD. If you do so core.worktree will be set to / and core.excludesFile will be set to /etc/.git/etcgit.exclude which will contain everything that was in "git status" after the first commit. Make sure that nothing touches your $DIRS while the script is running the first time.