I have both git and hg installed.  When installing etckeeper,
etckeeper will automatically init a git repo in /etc.

I think it would be better that etckeeper pops up a dialog to
ask users to select their preferred vcs during the post-installation
phrase.  Or maybe etckeeper can simply not automatically
init the repo in /etc.

weakish wrote:

I feel that it is much more useful for installing etckeeper to
automatically enable revision control, this makes it easy to start to
use it. While I have considered a debconf question, it would be a lot
of complication (for example, how would it record the answer; it can't
edit the conffile), and it'd be asking the user to make a choice that
they might not well understand, since etckeeper works better with some
VCS than with others. Instead, I made it easy to etckeeper uninit to
get back to a not-etckeepered git, and manually configure it.

Agreed.  This simple approach is better than the overcomplicated
debconf approach.