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rubo77
Asked: 2013-05-10 23:46:15 +0800 CST

Why is there no git repository after installing etckeeper?

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I installed etckeeper on my ubuntu 11.10 server, and after creating the etckeeper repository with:

etckeeper init
etckeeper commit "Initial version"

I got the error:

bzr: ERROR: No changes to commit. Please 'bzr add' the files you want to commit, or use --unchanged to force an empty commit.

So I added a test file and then I could create the etckeeper repository:

touch /etc/test
etckeeper commit "Initial version"
rm /etc/test

But still there seems to be no git repository there:

cd /etc
git status

How can I use git to watch changes?

git

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found out:

    in the config-file etckeeper/etckeeper.conf You have to set 

    VCS="git"
#VCS="bzr"

    then again:

    etckeeper init
etckeeper commit "Initial version"

    Then everything works on git:

    cd /etc
git status
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  2. I hit the same issue on 14.04, however it was a bit more annoying as the package was initializing etckeeper using bazaar automatically on apt-get install.

    Switching to git in the config file as mentioned above wasn't enough; I first had to undo the bazaar setup which was done at install time, like this:

    etckeeper uninit

    The steps above then worked fine.

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