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How do I trace changes in configuration files?

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I'm trying to learn how to set up my two Teres laptops so that they are 
identical.

I have now repeated the [first steps] a couple of times so that I feel 
that I know what I am doing (I don't necessarily understand what I am 
doing though). I have two identical machines that run from two identical 
SD cards.

So I'm ready for the next step, configuring some of the programs that 
are installed (e.g. shotwell, thunderbird and xfce itself).


I have tried to document my personal preferences before, but I have 
always ended up with unreadable handwritten notes.

This time I thought I should do it in a more systematic way by somehow 
capture the difference between the default install and the result of my 
(often irrational) efforts to make my machines look and feel like I want 
it to.

So, is there a way to trace/record/capture changes in all configuration 
files?

The idea is then to just replace the default configuration files with 
the files where my preferences have been saved.


Thanks for taking time.

//Erik


[first steps] https://box.redpill.dk (I do box-add-gui, not box-add-tui )

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How do I trace changes in configuration files? Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> - 2019-05-01 11:40 +0200
  Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-01 13:00 +0200
  Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-05-01 13:40 +0200
    Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> - 2019-05-01 18:50 +0200
      Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-05-01 19:30 +0200
      Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-05-01 23:20 +0200
        Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2019-05-02 00:10 +0200
      Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-05-02 05:30 +0200
        Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-05-02 13:10 +0200
        Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-05-02 18:20 +0200
          Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-05-02 22:20 +0200
            Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-05-02 23:00 +0200
  Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-05-02 12:10 +0200

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