Re: init system policy

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Philip Hands writes ("Re: init system policy"):
> Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> > I don't know how much etckeeper users use modifying (rather than
> > recording) git operations, but I can imagine that this approach might
> > easily result in etckeeper's git fighting with dpkg.
> 
> How so?

I mean, if you were to say something like
   git checkout /lib/something
   git revert [some commit that touches /lib/something]
   git reset --hard @{yesterday}

You would be modifying, via git, files in /lib.  The interaction
between dpkg and git would probably be ... exciting.

Ian.