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authorJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2007-11-06 00:25:48 -0500
committerJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2007-11-06 00:25:48 -0500
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Rinse, lather, repeat.
-etckeeper hooks into apt so changes to files in /etc caused by installing or
-upgrading packages will automatically be committed. (`etckeeper post-apt`
-uses `git-add .`, so any new files in /etc that arn't gitignored will be
-added. If it auto-adds files you don't want added, put them in
-`.gitignore`.)
+etckeeper hooks into apt so changes to interesting files in /etc caused by
+installing or upgrading packages will automatically be committed. Here
+"interesting" means files that are not ignored by `.gitignore`.
You can use any git commands you like, but do keep in mind that, if you
check out a different branch or an old version, git is operating directly