[MERGE] per-user file properties

[Ian Clatworthy]

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Hi Ian,

> I haven't done any code review but a quick comment nonetheless; 
> I'd rather see a different filename than $BAZAAR_HOME/.bzrproperties.
> Using a dot file doesn't make sense in this case since it is
> inconsistent with the names of all other files in BAZAAR_HOME and it
> makes it hard to discover the file.

I'm pretty sure .bzrignore is supported within BAZAAR_HOME and I was
trying to be consistent with that name. If we do decide to let users
define properties in their working tree, then making things as similar
as we can to what we do for .bzrignore seems sensible to me.

FWIW, the equivalent file in git is called .gitattributes. To my
(limited) knowledge, other VCS tools pretty much all support .xxxignore
file but don't support .xxxproperties or .xxxattributes files, so
there's really no "standard" I know of that users would expect us to follow.

Ian C.