[lug] Version Control Device Special Files?

[stimits at comcast.net]

This particular embedded system will boot and generate /dev, but not all of it is generated...in particular some custom firmware file which I do not know the nature of is not regenerated, along with a whole lot of items which are not actually needed DO get generated (items not in the original /dev). Looks like it would "work" to remove /dev, but the changes would have an impact on developing on the system. Perhaps a combination of custom svn triggers and tar for the case of /dev might do it...e.g., maybe I can trick it into a tar version of those files during import. I wouldn't mind manually untar of those files during export.

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> That said, do you really need to save the /dev and other non-files? In modern systems (even embedded ones I've worked with) that should all get rebuild dynamically by > the kernel and whatnot. Can you safely just skip them?...
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