[MERGE] per-user file properties

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Am Dienstag, den 06.05.2008, 22:51 +1000 schrieb Ian Clatworthy:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > 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.
That's the name of the file in the tree. The one in BAZAAR_HOME is
called 'ignore'. 

> 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.
Likewise, those are all in-tree files rather than configuration files in
the tool-specific configuration directory in $HOME.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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