[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="joey"
 subject="""comment 1"""
 date="2015-03-28T16:10:49Z"
 content="""
I would definitely go with #3. Unless I knew that the new system was
identical to the old before any customizations to /etc -- in that case,
cloning to /etc would work.

Note that `etckeeper init` will fix up the file permissions of a clone of
the repo, since etckeeper stores them.
"""]]