Should bzr aliases possibly be in their own file?

[Martin Pool]

On 14 October 2010 10:22, Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 18:17, Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 18:00, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Tom,
>>>
>>> I think the desire to split up config files so they can be merged and
>>> copied doesn't need to be specific to aliases.  Perhaps we should have
>>> a conf.d directory, and read in the contents of all files within it.
>>
>
> Sorry, I sent too soon, and Philip's e-mail crossed mine.  Once more:
>
> Martin that sounds good, and that would satisfy system-wide values and
> eliminate the need for an environment variable.
>
> But what about user changes?  I still like the idea of environment
> variables for the location of that file or files or directory in order
> to override any default.  At the moment I use symbolic links to work
> around that.

I think we would have a system and per-user configuration directory,
and then a defined ordering within them.
-- 
Martin