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etckeeper – keeping /etc in a git repository

When having a look at git yesterday, I stumbled upon etckeeper, a tool to keep /etc in a git (or mercurial) repository and also keeps the metadata (file permissions, …) in the repo making use of metastore.
It hooks into apt but I used /etc/portage/basrc to call it before and after installing a package:
case “$EBUILD_PHASE” [...]

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