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Section: admin
Depends: metastore, git-core, ${misc:Depends}, debconf | debconf-2.0
Description: store /etc in git
- etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git
- repository. It hooks into apt to automatically commit changes made to /etc
- during package upgrades. It uses `metastore` to track file metadata that
+ The etckeeper program is a tool to let /etc be stored in a git
+ repository. It hooks into APT to automatically commit changes made to /etc
+ during package upgrades. It uses 'metastore' to track file metadata that
git does not normally support, but that is important for /etc, such as the
- permissions of `/etc/shadow`. It's quite modular and configurable, while
+ permissions of /etc/shadow. It's quite modular and configurable, while
also being simple to use if you understand the basics of working with git.
-