let's not make it really git specific..

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/etc-init b/etc-init
index 50fb408..8a0c995 100644
--- a/etc-init
+++ b/etc-init
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# Initialise /etc as a git repository (if it isn't already), set up hooks, etc.
-# Do not commit anything though.
+# Initialise the current directory (typically /etc) for use by etckeeper.
+# Runs etc/etckeeper/post-apt.d/* hooks, which handle chores like setting
+# up metadata storage hooks, ignores, adding files (but not committing
+# those added files), and ensuring that the revision control directory
+# won't leak data from files like shadow, by making it mode 700.