[PATCH] TreeConfig should support sections

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Thu Jul 27 15:16:59 BST 2006


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Robert Collins wrote:
> Sections are used in the locations config file - each url is a section.
> 
> But we dont have sub-sections. So a setting in branch.conf in a named
> section cannot be represented in locations.conf.

bzrlib.util.configobj.ConfigObj can represent sub-sections.  This
limitation is purely due to bzrlib.config.ConfigObj.

> I'm really -1 on this until we decide how the things should interact. It
> seems like we're shooting our foot off otherwise.

I think it's terribly limiting to require all settings to be in one
section.  Anyhow, a bug is a bug.  If we're not going to support that
parameter, we should make it throw when it's supplied.

Aaron
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