Installing etckeeper to store config with autopush to git in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

etckeeper - https://github.com/joeyh/etckeeper - is a great utility for automatically storing your server configuration in git, because configuration should be tracked like any other program. Ubuntu includes a package for it, but by default it uses Bazzar (Canonical's versioning system) instead of git as the author intended. To quote the README:

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.

Yup.

Takes a bit of tweaking out-of-the-box. Let me save you some time.

# Login as root.
sudo su
# Install etckeeper.
apt-get -y install etckeeper
# Edit the etckeeper configuration.
nano /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf

Uncomment the GIT line and comment out bzr.

VCS="git"
#VCS="bzr"

Modify PUSH_REMOTE:

PUSH_REMOTE="origin"

Exit & save.

# Go to the configuration directory.
cd /etc
# Initialize etckeeper.
etckeeper init
# Add the remote repository.
git remote add origin git@HOSTNAME:REPONAME
# First commit.
etckeeper commit "Initial commit."
# Set the upstream and push.
git push -u origin master
# We're done here.
exit

Etckeeper will now automatically push commits to your git repository.