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@@ -28,10 +28,9 @@ repository. etckeeper has special support to handle changes to /etc caused by installing and upgrading packages. Before apt installs packages, -`etckeeper-pre-apt` will check that /etc is clean, and if it's not, prompt -you about whether or not to continue. (This check can be disabled.) After -apt installs packages, `etckeeper-post-apt` will add any new interesting -files to the repository, and commit the changes. +`etckeeper-pre-apt` will check that /etc contains no uncommitted changes. +After apt installs packages, `etckeeper-post-apt` will add any new +interesting files to the repository, and commit the changes. git is designed as a way to manage source code, not as a way to manage arbitrary directories like /etc. This means it has a few limitations that @@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ empty directory, if it's not significant, or put a file (such as git doesn't support several special files that you _probably_ won't have in /etc, such as unix sockets, named pipes, hardlinked files (but softlinks -are fine), and device files. Again a git hooks are used to warn if your /etc +are fine), and device files. Again git hooks are used to warn if your /etc contains such untrackable special files. |