There have been attempts to address git's shortcomings with respect to independent revision control of a single file: There is the "zit" project at http://git

There have been attempts to address git's shortcomings with respect to independent revision control of a single file: There is the "zit" project at http://git.oblomov.eu/zit http://git.oblomov.eu/zit ...although it wasn't ideal for me, and it doesn't look like it's been updated in a while. E.g., these days that should be on GitHub! RCS really fits well with the use-case of /etc configuration files. It's a pity that Git doesn't function very well for that particular case.