Peter> You can use svk instead of svn I do not see how this solves the metadata issue if you use a version control system directly without the smartness etckeeper brings to the table e.g. by using its .gitignore settings.
svk is an attempt to inject the notion of being a decentralized scm into a centralized one (which svn happens to be) ... that has nothing to do with putting /etc under version control
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