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authorJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2007-11-06 00:09:05 -0500
committerJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2007-11-06 00:09:05 -0500
commita9c4fe62edabb7dbb4970edbe15ba6ed146eba1a (patch)
tree1cdf579f7b5ec3d2f93de7895129217fdb25010d /README
parentad7202a18498d46420aefba9b0746ea187dd0472 (diff)
rationallised directory handling
Default to cding to /etc, but allow the user to specify another directory to operate on.
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@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ contains such special files.
A quick walkthrough of using etckeeper.
- cd /etc
etckeeper init
The `etckeeper init` command initialises an /etc/.git/ repository. This
@@ -74,6 +73,7 @@ commit. So you might want to use git status to check that it includes all
the right files, and none of the wrong files. And you can edit the
.gitignore and so forth. Once you're ready:
+ cd /etc
git commit -m "initial checkin"
git gc # pack git repo to save a lot of space
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ shadow, before `etckeeper init` fixes their permissions:
chmod 700 .
git clone /etc
cd etc
- etckeeper init
+ etckeeper init .
chmod 755 ..
Another common reason to clone the repository is to make a backup to a