thoughts on a bzrrc file

[Martin Pool]

Hi,

Continuing an earlier discussion: it seems to make sense to have a
~/.bzrrc file holding per-user configuraton.  We should possibly move
the email setting from its own file into the rc file.  The particular
one I would like to add now is a command to produce diffs using an
external diff program rather than difflib.

Arch has a directory containing a bunch of single-value files, which
is kind of nice in a unixy way, but has its limitations.

On Windows it might make sense to use the registry as well/instead.

One option is to just make it a Python file, but that may cause
confusion to people unaccustomed to Python who make syntax errors.

Another, and probably the best, is to use ConfigParser_ to read a
.ini-style format, as used by Windows and Samba.  This style of file
is also used by svn and more recently by baz.

_ http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ConfigParser.html

So:


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# my bzr config file

diff_program = diff -uw %s %s
email = Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net>
editor = emacsclient %s

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-- 
Martin