Well, it's a little bit of work. The point is that several people can maintain their own branches of /etc/hosts and use git to keep them up to date and propaga

Well, it's a little bit of work. The point is that several people can maintain their own branches of /etc/hosts and use git to keep them up to date and propagate their additions. I'd just clobber /etc/hosts from the repo file with cp -f, whenever the repo is changed, no need for any cron/init automation.