On Wed, 5 May 2021 10:36:53 -0500
David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:

> [W]hy are there dotfiles in /etc/ anyway.
> (.git/, .java/, .etckeeper, .gitignore are the others.) What are they
> hiding from?

Indeed. And shouldn't one be backing them up?

I see that amanda has been backing them up and that "add *" in
amrecover does add them to the extract list (phew!). Would other backup
tools catch dotfiles?

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