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). ** Changed in: etckeeper (Ubuntu) Status: Opinion => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/862728 Title: Please stop defaulting to VCS="bzr" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/etckeeper/+bug/862728/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
