Combining branches.conf sections

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 14:48 +0100, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> yesterday I set up the email plugin to send commit mail to a mailing
> list for all branches in one dir, which worked and was great.
> 
>   [/home/larstiq/src/project/*]
>   post_commit = bzrlib.plugins.email.post_commit
>   post_commit_to = bzr-list at somehost
> 
> However, after pushing one of those branches, mail stopped going out for
> that one. The added section in ~/.bazaar/branches.conf:
> 
>   [/home/larstiq/src/project/specific-branch]
>   push_location = sftp://host/path
> 
> http://bazaar.canonical.com/ConfiguringBzr explains why my globbing
> post_commit failed after push saved the push_location:
> 
>   For branches.conf, the variables from the section with the longest
>   matching section header are used to the exclusion of other potentially
>   valid section headers.
> 
> 
> So how to do this? Duplicating the post_commit stuff for each and every
> branch feels dirty, and I can't set under [DEFAULT] in bazaar.conf,
> because this is correct for one project only.
> 
> So, what do people think of using information from all matching
> sections, applying in generic->specific order? The globbing is simple
> enough to not make debugging much harder.

Thats possible. I think there are two other routes though:
bzr push could copy the settings from the prior section
we could make inheritance optional.

I'm really ambivalent, this is a UI area where I'm not sure what the
right thing is..

Rob

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