Introduction

I have recently implemented etckeeper and metastore to keep my Gentoo server:/etc directory under version control. Object of interest today is how to make a good git commit message regarding Gentoo’s /etc/make.conf and the long long USE flags (possibly multi-)line in there. Usually these USE flag changes happen in the process of reconfiguring some packages. I often don’t commit make.conf changes immediately and then after a few days can’t remember anymore what USE flags have changed and why to make a meaningful commit message.
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