[MERGE] configuration policies

[John Arbash Meinel]

James Henstridge wrote:
> On 27/11/06, James Henstridge <james at jamesh.id.au> wrote:
>> On 26/11/06, Wouter van Heyst <larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> > Has anyone tried using this? If there are no quirky corners I think
>> this
>> > change would be very good to have.
>>
>> I've used it locally, and it seems to work okay :)
>>
>> It would be quite useful for Launchpad development since it means we
>> generally work with short lived feature branches and it would allow
>> developers to configure their "bzr push" and PQM submit locations once
>> and have it work for all their branches.
>>
>> As far as nested trees go, this patch does change the behaviour a bit,
>> but I consider the previous behaviour broken.  Consider the following
>> case:
>>
>> 1. user creates a branch as /a
>> 2. user creates a nested branch as /a/b
>> 3. user runs "bzr push http://myserver/a" when in /a
>>
>> This causes a push location to be remembered for /a.  With current
>> Bazaar, the remembered push location will also affect /a/b, so that
>> "bzr push" in that branch will also push to http://myserver/a (not
>> http://myserver/a/b).  This is almost certainly not desired behaviour,
>> since we have two different branches pushing to the same location.
>>
>> With my patch, the remembered push location for /a has the norecurse
>> policy, so does not affect /a/b.  This seemed to be the most
>> conservative choice at this point.
> 
> Attached is an updated version of the config policies patch.  The only
> difference to the previous one is that I've updated the deprecation
> message to note that the feature was introduced in bzr-0.14 rather
> than bzr-0.13.
> 
> Previous versions of this patch have received +1's from Aaron and John.
> 
> James.
>

The one thing this is missing is a good NEWS entry. Since this is
something that people are going to want to use, it should be announced.
I threw something together, but it would be nice to at least get a
little bit of documentation written up so that people can figure out how
to use it. Can you update the documentation in doc/configuration.txt?

We probably should add a help topic for 'bzr help config'.

John
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