I use etc keeper with git, and some etc files are simultaneous manually managed with RCS (mainly historic reasons) etckeeper wants to checkin the ,v RCS repository files.
Shouldnt "RCS/*,v" or something be the default in .gitignore
Or more generally, should it ignore repo files for all vc systems not just the one its using?
Where would I make this change locally to fix this, so it applies to all directories and version control systems? Right now Ive just amended the git ignore file
I think this is an unusual configuration, and it would be very clunky to need to keep track of every file that might need to be ignored for every VCS.
Editing the .gitignore seems like the right solution for you.