How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

From	ray <ray@aarden.us>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	How to Keep Track of Changes to the System
Date	2017-08-26 05:40 +0200
Message-ID	<uiA6Z-4qv-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system.  It seem that I may learn from others on how they keep track of changes they make to their systems.

When I make changes, I don't remember where I made changes or why.  

It would be great to have a log of what changes I've made, where they were made, how they were made (direct edit, scripted, etc.), why I made them, references that I used to determine the change, and what was the outcome.

Right now, I get lost in my documentation.  I research solutions, make notes in Onenote on a Windows machine, record configurations files that I will test.  But It is difficult to record results such as syslogs or console transactions.  More challenging is that I have different notebook tabs for different objectives.  So when I want to see what I changed, I have to go through many different objectives because I don't know what object I was shooting for when I made the change.

I would really like to hear how others track their changes or suggestions how I may tack changes.

I store all the changes on a different computer because I screw up the installation on my machine under test and rebuild the OS.  The laptop I am building to run Xen is on its 28th build.  

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Ray

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How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 05:40 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-08-26 06:10 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 15:10 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu> - 2017-08-26 11:50 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 15:20 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-26 12:10 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 15:30 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-26 19:00 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-08-26 23:20 +0200
        Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-27 17:20 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2017-08-27 13:50 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-31 05:00 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2017-08-31 10:50 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-08-31 23:40 +0200
        Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System hdv@gmail <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 07:50 +0200
          Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-09-01 13:40 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-08-27 16:00 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-31 05:20 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-08-31 23:40 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-27 17:50 +0200

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