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How to reuse/extend etckeeper's metadata engine for git control of non-/etc filesystems, or extend git natively with said capability?

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Update: 2020-09-22 After having used it a while (years?), etckeeper+git does not meet the requirements I seek. Overview + question I want etckeeper-like filesystem metadata control for non-/etc, git-controlled directories. Home and web-app directories, among others, are classically sensitive to met…

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According to this serverfault answer, you just do this: It is right there in the man page. Create a directory Initialize with etckeeper: Commit apply commits to the directory:

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