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Sysadmin’s plan to manage system config changes backfires spectacularly

cream wobbly

Re: Why use a revision control system?

I work with people like you, and from bitter experience, I hate you.

Yes. (From bitter experience) I'm completely the opposite to our commending friend. I'd go so far as to say that documentation, communication, is vastly more important than the config change itself. If you can't reverse it or replicate it, it's a guess, it's a hack, it's broken and there's the door.

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