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authorDavid De La Harpe Golden (Squared Financial) <dgolden@squaredfinancial.com>2012-05-31 18:27:06 +0100
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-06-02 18:05:30 -0400
commit6e7aab39cced00eae03040753c85527aab573319 (patch)
tree30431d5c28204fe2797668bfa9b6691089ae383b /etckeeper.8
parent40eeedebb6be23035aea9d15aed1be706479ce79 (diff)
Preserve unmanaged ignore file entries on uninit (#673996)
Signed-off-by: David De La Harpe Golden (Squared Financial) <dgolden@squaredfinancial.com>
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@@ -41,10 +41,11 @@ repository. (You can also call this by hand after running dpkg by hand.)
.B unclean
This returns true if the directory contains uncommitted changes.
.TP
-.B update-ignore
+.B update-ignore [-a]
This updates the VCS ignore file. Content outside a "managed by etckeeper"
block is not touched. This is generally run when upgrading to a new version
-of etckeeper.
+of etckeeper. (The -a switch will add a "managed by etckeeper" block if
+one is not present.)
.TP
.B vcs subcommand [options ...]
You can use this to run any subcommand of the VCS that etckeeper is