Comment 4 for bug 862728

Soren: let me just quote the official etckeeper documentation on this topic:

"By default, etckeeper uses git. This choice has been carefully made; git is the VCS best supported by etckeeper and the VCS users are most likely to know.

[ It's possible that your distribution has chosen to modify etckeeper so its default VCS is not git -- if they have please complain to them, as they're making things unnecessarily difficult for you, and causing unnecessary divergence of etckeeper installations. You should only be using etckeeper with a VCS other than git if you're in love with the other VCS. ]"

Source: http://etckeeper.branchable.com/README/

Also:

"Setting a repository up at install-time is a feature of etckeeper upstream (and a good one)."

Bug #482417

BTW, Bug #482417 is generally complaining about the default bzr setting, too.

It would be so nice to be able to either choose VCS at install-time or make the same choice via package selection (separate packages for etckeeper-git, etckeeper-bzr, etckeeper-darcs etc + if I don't want any preconfiguration, I could just install an etckeeper-common package).