man etckeeper Command

Man page for apt-get etckeeper Command

Man Page for etckeeper in Linux

This tutorial shows the man page for man etckeeper in linux.

Open terminal with 'su' access and type the command as shown below:
man etckeeper

Result of the Command Execution shown below:

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NAME
       etckeeper   store /etc in git, mercurial, bazaar, or darcs

SYNOPSIS
       etckeeper command [ d directory]

DESCRIPTION
       etckeeper  manages  /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, bazaar, or darcs repository. By default each of the commands operates on /etc, but a different direc 
       tory can be specified to operate on a clone of the /etc repository located elsewhere.

COMMANDS
       init   This initialises and sets up a git, mercurial, bazaar, or darcs repository (depending on the VCS setting in /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf).  Typically
              this  is  run in /etc once when starting to use etckeeper on a machine. It can also be used to initialise a clone of the /etc repository located else 
              where.

       commit [message]
              Commits all changes in /etc to the repository. A commit message can be specified. You may also use the underlying VCS to commit manually.

       pre commit
              This is called as a pre commit hook. It stores metadata and does sanity checks.

       pre install
              This is called by apt's DPkg::Pre Install Pkgs hook, or by equivalent hooks of other package managers. It allows committing  any  uncommitted  changes
              before packages are installed, upgraded, etc.

       post install
              This is called by apt's DPkg::Post Invoke hook, or by equivalent hooks of other package managers. It commits changes made by packages into the reposi 
              tory. (You can also call this by hand after running dpkg by hand.)

       unclean
              This returns true if the directory contains uncommitted changes.

       update ignore
              This updates the VCS ignore file. Content outside a "managed by etckeeper" block is not touched. This is generally run when upgrading to a new version
              of etckeeper.

       uninit [ f]
              This  command  DESTROYS  DATA!  It  is  the inverse of the init command, removing VCS information and etckeeper's own bookkeeping information from the
              directory. Use with caution. A typical use case would be to run etckeeper uninit, then modify etckeeper.conf to use a different VCS, and then run etc 
              keeper init. (The  f switch can be used to force uninit without prompting.)

FILES
       /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf is the configuration file.

       /etc/etckeeper also contains directories containing the programs that are run for each of the above commands.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       ETCKEEPER_CONF_DIR path to configuration directory instead of default /etc/etckeeper.

SEE ALSO
       /usr/share/doc/etckeeper/README.gz

AUTHOR
       Joey Hess 



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