From 849f3743ff1541aaec93013859cb6ed285496c8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:09:50 -0400 Subject: update docs --- doc/README.mdwn | 2 +- doc/index.mdwn | 16 ++++++++++++++-- doc/install.mdwn | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/README.mdwn b/doc/README.mdwn index 33ff4a7..4528eb3 100644 --- a/doc/README.mdwn +++ b/doc/README.mdwn @@ -284,4 +284,4 @@ etckeeper is licensed under version 2 or greater of the GNU GPL. ## author -Joey Hess +Joey Hess diff --git a/doc/index.mdwn b/doc/index.mdwn index 54ad97e..7f76bb2 100644 --- a/doc/index.mdwn +++ b/doc/index.mdwn @@ -1,10 +1,22 @@ +etckeeper is a collection of tools to let `/etc` be stored in a git, +mercurial, bazaar or darcs repository. This lets you use git to review or +revert changes that were made to `/etc`. Or even push the repository +elsewhere for backups or cherry-picking configuration changes. + +It hooks into package managers like apt to automatically commit changes +made to /etc during package upgrades. It tracks 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 also being simple to use if you +understand the basics of working with version control. + -[[!inline raw=yes pages="README"]] - [[!sidebar content=""" +[[README]] [[install]] [[news]] [[todo]] diff --git a/doc/install.mdwn b/doc/install.mdwn index 2997373..346082c 100644 --- a/doc/install.mdwn +++ b/doc/install.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -etckeeper is available in git at `git://git.kitenet.net/etckeeper`, or -[in gitweb](http://git.kitenet.net/?p=etckeeper.git). +etckeeper is available in git at `git://git.joeyh.name/etckeeper`, or +[in gitweb](http://git.joeyh.name/?p=etckeeper.git). It's packaged in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. -- cgit v1.2.3