etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git,
mercurial, darcs, or bzr repository. It hooks into apt (and other package
managers including yum and pacman-g2) to automatically commit changes made
to /etc during package upgrades. It tracks file metadata that revison
control systems do 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 revision control.

etckeeper is available in git at `git://git.kitenet.net/etckeeper`, or
[in gitweb](http://git.kitenet.net/?p=etckeeper.git). It's packaged in
Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.

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