Meet your Keeper

etckeeper is a collection of tools to let you store your precious /etc files in a repository which is updated daily from cron. One can choose git darcs hg bzr. There is very little configuration to do.

Below follows quick step-by-step to set it up with git: Commands_ 

git config --global user.name ""YOU""
git config --global user.email you@example.com
apt-get -y install git-core
apt-get install etckeeper
cd /etc
etckeeper commit ""Initial Commit 20120612.""
Verify all is well 
git status
git log
git summary
The cron runs daily and is in /etc/cron.daily/etckeeper. It integrates with APT. ETCKEEPER is available here, or from most Linux repositories: http://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/