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@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ You can also run `etckeeper commit` by hand to commit changes. There is also a cron job, that will use etckeeper to automatically commit any changes to /etc each day. + ## VCS limitations Version Control Systems are designed as a way to manage source code, not as @@ -181,6 +182,7 @@ Of course, it's also possible to pull changes from a server onto client machines, to deploy changes to /etc. Once /etc is under version control, the sky's the limit.. + ## configuration The main configuration file is `/etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf` @@ -204,6 +206,7 @@ letting it git add new files and git rm removed ones: chmod -x /etc/etckeeper/commit.d/50vcs-commit + ## changing VCS By default, etckeeper uses git. If you would like to use some other VCS, @@ -224,6 +227,7 @@ run `etckeeper uninit`, move files your new VCS will use into place, edit `etckeeper.conf` to change the VCS setting, and finally `etckeeper init`. This procedure is clearly only for the brave. + ## inspiration Two blog posts provided inspiration for techniques used by etckeeper: diff --git a/etckeeper.8 b/etckeeper.8 index aef85d0..0f83b26 100644 --- a/etckeeper.8 +++ b/etckeeper.8 @@ -58,4 +58,4 @@ run for each of the above commands. .SH SEE ALSO /usr/share/doc/etckeeper/README.gz .SH AUTHOR -Joey Hess, <joey@kitenet.net>. +Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> |