I've never actually used the info that etckeeper provides (I've never had the need to roll back changes); but I do like the piece of mind that goes along with having it there...
As the .gitignore file was updated in May, the current v14.0 appliances should be much better. Are you still seeing junk that shouldn't be there?
Beyond poorly behaving apps (i.e. Webmin) IMO an auto commit with a not so useful message and a jumble of changes is superior to losing config file changes altogether.
Also IMO there is absolutely nothing wrong with consolidating previous commits (or possibly even deleting them altogether after some time). Obviously it's not ideal for a normal git repo (re-writing history is not a great idea in any shared repo) but etckeeper's management of /etc is not a normal git repo! :)
TBH I haven't looked into this too much
As the .gitignore file was updated in May, the current v14.0 appliances should be much better. Are you still seeing junk that shouldn't be there?
Beyond poorly behaving apps (i.e. Webmin) IMO an auto commit with a not so useful message and a jumble of changes is superior to losing config file changes altogether.
Also IMO there is absolutely nothing wrong with consolidating previous commits (or possibly even deleting them altogether after some time). Obviously it's not ideal for a normal git repo (re-writing history is not a great idea in any shared repo) but etckeeper's management of /etc is not a normal git repo! :)