branches.conf -> locations.conf warning

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Sun Jul 2 02:07:55 BST 2006


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Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The warning is very missleading for a non-expert user.
> 
> It currently says:
> 
>   Please rename branches.conf to locations.conf
> 
> I suggest instead
> 
>   The name for the branch-specific configuration file has changed in
>   this release. Please, rename ~/.bazaar/branches.conf to
>   ~/.bazaar/locations.conf.
> 
> Since the user might even not know that the file exists, and what it
> is meant for.
> 

I completely agree. And I agree with Alexander that we need 2 error
messages. If we are on windows we should print out the full path, but on
all other platforms we should be printing ~/.bazaar/branches.conf since
it makes sense there.

John
=:->

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