I've been looking at questions and answers about version control of knowledge in Splunk and frankly it's weak to non-existent. There's nothing in the BUI and you're on your own with text files. On non-*x platforms where svn, git, even rcs and make (for placing files) are unknown, this is getting to be a large problem with our customers especially after a few years cranking away developing their own knowledge artifacts. From what I've seen of sourcesafe and other windowsy things, you do not want to go down that road if you can avoid it. So, how about an RFE to include even very basic version control in the BUI so that your latest and maybe a couple of previous diffs of your conf files get stored somewehere, and you can roll back if you want? I shouldn't think this would be much of a stretch, and for extra credit some hooks into popular version control systems would be REALLY nice...:-) SoS is only a partial answer at best and points the way to something better.
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