Command to set settings for bazaar branches?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think it's a bit low level that the user has to edit configuration
> files by hand (eg bazaar.conf or locations.conf). Any setting in there
> should be able to be changed using Bazaar commands I think. This is
> already possible with whoami command but not for others (like public
> branch location etc).
> 
> This could be done by one command (eg config):
> 
> bzr config public_branch http://example.com/branch
> 
> This would set public_branch location. bzr config on it's own would list
> all settings for the current branch.
> 
> Trying to set a variable that was unknown would give a warning (or maybe
> even an error). bzr config help would give the user help about each
> configuration option.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nick

Something like that seems reasonable. (We have 'bzr alias' because I
think Tim Penhey didn't like to edit ~/.bazaar/bazaar.conf to set aliases.)

The concern is that we really don't want to end up writing a text
editor, but probably a simple single-setting-at-a-time would be reasonable.

John
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