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| -rw-r--r-- | etc-clone | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | etc-init | 7 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/etc-clone b/etc-clone deleted file mode 100644 index d257c66..0000000 --- a/etc-clone +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -# Clone a git repository that holds an /etc. Doesn't check it out to /etc -# by default though. Calls etc-init to set up hooks, and ensures that files -# like shadow are never world readable during the cloning process. @@ -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. |