Package: etckeeper Version: 0.48 Severity: normal If you have added entries to .gitignore outside its "managed by etckeeper" section, they are lost upon uninit, as uninit naively deletes the whole file. This is in contrast to update-ignore behaviour, which afaics carefully only munges the "managed by etckeeper" section. IMHO etckeeper should be more careful upon uninit, and only nuke the "managed by etckeeper" section rather than the whole file - at least if the .gitignore has entries outside the managed section.
I _didn't_ want certain files with password hashes and keys checked into our etckeeper-augmented git repo (which we then wanted to push to a central server), so manually added them to .gitignore outside the managed section, and then uninited before going to recreate a clean repo... Okay, a mistake one would only make once, and it's not like the uninit action does a lot right now that can't be done manually instead, but anyway. Hmm. I wonder would .git/info/exclude be an alternative for etckeeper to manage, and reserve .gitignore to the user. Maybe not though, after all you can't check in .git/info/exclude but you can check in .gitignore, and you might want to do that even if etckeeper is auto-managing it, to preserve the history of changes to its auto-management... -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages etckeeper depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii git [git-core] 1:1.7.2.5-3 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii git-core 1:1.7.2.5-3 fast, scalable, distributed revisi Versions of packages etckeeper recommends: ii cron 3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon etckeeper suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded -- IT Department Squared Financial Services Limited www.squaredfinancial.com Custom House Plaza 2 Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, Dublin 1 Ireland Switch: + 353 1 661 0500 Direct: + 353 1 662 1930 Fax: + 353 1 661 1087 Squared Financial Services Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Registered Office: Custom House Plaza 2, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, Dublin 1, Ireland. Registered No. 399289. Directors: Philippe Ghanem (Swiss), Magid Khoury (Swiss), Ronnie Culliton, Bachir Rabbat (Canadian), Jeff Grossman, Youssef Barakat (Lebanese). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this email by mistake), please notify the sender and kindly destroy this email. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or dissemination of the material in this email in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Email transmission security and error-free status cannot be guaranteed as information could be intercepted, corrupted, destroyed, delayed, incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which may arise as a result of email transmission. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
