<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:44 PM, William Park via talk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" target="_blank">talk@gtalug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Couldn't you do something like <br>
    cp file file--$(date +%F_%T)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You could but that  doesn't do anything other than scatter a bunch of files on your disk that are timestamped. It doesn't meet the requirement of documenting changes. A revision control system can do that. The Salt/Ansible/Puppet solution will enable you to deploy the changes from the revision control system.</div><div><br clear="all" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="m_7270469032193610436gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,<div><br></div><div>Clifford Ilkay</div><div><br></div><div>+1 647-778-8696</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><img src="https://my-email-signature.link/signature.gif?u=206693&e=22946541&v=1d0085b77b07f6f64ba223aaa0629e18a500be203490e32ee8b637033002e090" style="width:0;max-height:0;overflow:hidden">