Command to set settings for bazaar branches?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:31 -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Nicholas Allen <nick.allen at onlinehome.de> writes:
> > 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?
> 
> Well... for this specific example, I've always wondered why "bzr bind"
> doesn't just set public_branch automatically.  Should it?
The branch you're bound to will in most of cases be some
developer-writable location (bzr+ssh://myusername@foo/bar) and not the
public location that's accessible for the general public.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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