-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 So tonight I was discussing Lemmih's LHC fork of JHC with him, when I mentioned it'd be nice if his repository (at ) had a default address for 'darcs send' to use, since I find it terribly tedious to copy the maintainer address from lhc.cabal or to actually type in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
He asked how. I discovered I had forgotten. The manual says: "The _darcs/prefs/email file is used to provide the e-mail address for your repository that others will use when they darcs send a patch back to you. The contents of the file should simply be an e-mail address." First I tried to do 'darcs setpref email [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. This seemed reasonable to me - 'darcs help setpref' doesn't actually list all the possible options*, so I optimistically tried it. That didn't work. Eventually I just told Lemmih to ssh to community.haskell.org and manually create the file. So, this leads me to my point: why not make email a setpref'able option? This has other benefits than being more straightforward and consistent: if it's a pref patch like the others, then it is pullable. To continue my example: once Lemmih manually added the email file, I went to my existing lhc repo and pulled. This did not pull in the email file. Apparently that is only included if the command is a 'get'. (I do not intend to darcs get lhc again, as it's a 2k patches darcs-1 repo on code.h.o == very slow.) * Incidentally, does it strike anyone else as silly to have the help say 'Set a value for a preference (test, predist, ...).'? Why not just list all the preferences? There aren't that many, and it would certainly make that help much more useful. - -- gwern -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREKAAYFAkkqJ6AACgkQvpDo5Pfl1oJPggCeKxwRel8f12GwEGC1/V07iuQH CW4AoIb4uuX+pvjmbjzIHfNB6SMJaSMi =KMtx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
