How to check what files have been customised in /etc?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:20:31 -0500, Little Girl wrote:
>Anyone who's doing multiple edits to files in /etc would hopefully
>already be keeping meticulous notes of the changes in case one or more
>roll-backs are needed or so all the changes can be repeated again
>another time.
>
>>No direct experience though, as I find editor auto-backups to be
>>clutter and almost invariably turn them off in favour of version
>>control systems.  
>
>Interesting. I, too, find them to be clutter, but I leave them on and
>then run around behind the programs that litter my drive with them and
>clean them up manually. I only ever get rid of them in directories I
>visit all the time. I'd leave them in place in the /etc directory.

I turn off auto-backups and instead manually name and save "backups" as
already mentioned by
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2020-December/302606.html
: "xorg.conf.crt", "xorg.conf.dual.1", "xorg.conf.multi.1" or
"xorg.conf.multi.only60hz"

Men never tidy up, they do it right in the first place (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_effect ). Btw.
the "meticulous" notes are already part of the file names.

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