[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://openid.stackexchange.com/user/9df74bc5-3799-4cb1-8f54-971c8423ddaa"
 nickname="alan.christopher.jenkins"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/8e723c6cf403714781c6f1ca93551ac5f15f1c982669ab553fb2b73bb896a69a"
 subject="comment 1"
 date="2017-01-05T12:41:13Z"
 content="""
What happened to me was that .etckeeper bloats up with files from the .git directories. Also it behaved confusingly different depending on the exact sequence of events. My notes on this are [here](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/323489/i-have-nested-git-repos-will-it-cause-a-problem)
"""]]
