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| author | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-02-24 22:51:37 -0500 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-02-24 22:51:37 -0500 |
| commit | 10bfd242b773ba54a5cc961915d5f2af309d6135 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f87c8c001e671738d11498f335144975ec57dc4 /README | |
| parent | 18f5b9f572bdc54d66128036cad27680fc6f1923 (diff) | |
etckeeper commit may not always auto-run
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ it. Using other VCSes should be broadly similar. The `etckeeper init` command initialises an /etc/.git/ repository. If you installed etckeeper from a package, this was probably automatically -performed during the package installation. +performed during the package installation. If not, your first step is to +run it by hand: + + etckeeper init The `etckeeper init` command is careful to never overwrite existing files or directories in /etc. It will create a `.gitignore` if one doesn't |