Configuration across multiple configuration files

[James Westby]

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 10:35 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> I'm trying to consolidate my home directory across many different
> machines, in particular by consolidating user-specific configuration
> for programs.
> 
> Largely this means splitting configuration into separate config files
> for "settings common to all hosts" versus "settings to apply only on
> specific hosts", and using whatever facility the program allows to
> consolidate those separate config files into a single configuration.
> 
> What facility does Bazaar have for splitting (e.g.) my
> "$HOME/.bazaar/bazaar.conf" into separate files and having them all
> applied together when I run 'bzr'?
> 

I don't think bzr has any facility for this currently.

However, I think the code would be easily amenable to this,
and it may be easy to do as a plugin. I guess it may also
be accepted for the core if you would like to write a patch.

Thanks,

James