Magit VS RANCID

Magit Reviews

RANCID Reviews

Magit mentions (5)

• What is the best possible solution for file history?

  If you use magit, it has magit-wip-mode to automatically commit changes to tracked files in working and index trees into wip refs per branch. Source: over 1 year ago

• What does your workflow look like on Linux?

  Magit because it's a great git frontend. Source: over 1 year ago

• Let's share your top 3 packages that you can't live without.

  Without any order magit, lispy and minions. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Link to a git commit from Org mode using Magit | THIS IS EMACS

  Do you believe me if I tell you that with Org mode the data we refer To in a link can be a buffer in magit-revision-mode (from magit Package) showing us a specific commit of some git repository? Source: about 2 years ago

• Need help listing all "Emacs super developers."

  Otherwise, every big Emacs project should have some great elisp code, I have in mind LSP-Mode, Magit and such. Source: about 2 years ago

RANCID mentions (9)

• Cisco switch backup/restore?

  A decade ago I worked for a shop that needed to routinely back up 100+ cisco switches and routers and refused to pay for solarwinds. I setup a light weight freebsd vm to run this open source software: https://shrubbery.net/rancid/ (Rancid: Really Awesome New Cisco config Differ) and set it to scrape all the equipment every 12 errors. Source: over 1 year ago

• Version control for network configs

  Anyways Rancid does support cvs, svn, and git. Though I have only used it with cvs. Basically what it does, is checks out the configuration, downloads the configuration with other information about the state of the device, commits the configurations(which only changed ones will be in the latest check-ins, and then it can send an email of the changes. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Management Software for Cisco Devices?

  RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System), Subversion or Git to maintain history of changes. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What all are you doing with Ansible?

  If you want to use this as an opportunity to learn Ansible, or you don't want to add another tool to the stack, this is a fine use case. Otherwise, I would consider using either RANCID or Oxidized for configuration backup. Source: about 2 years ago

• Starting with python at 30

  Before I knew about RANCiD (https://shrubbery.net/rancid), I wrote my own Perl application to telnet into a Foundry Networks switch and TFTP its configuration to my computer so I could back it up. At a future employer, I rewrote another coworkers Perl application that collected SNMP values from devices and did stuff with it (forget what all I did then). Source: about 2 years ago