[email protected] (Trent W. Buck) writes:
> Simon Michael <[email protected]> writes:
>> Sat Feb  7 14:13:21 PST 2009  Simon Michael <[email protected]>
>>   * canonical authors may be defined in an .authorspellings file
>>   Example:
>>
>>   Joe Blogg <[email protected]>
>>   -- authors containing [email protected] or [email protected] or matching just "sue" are Sue 
>> Bragg
>>   Sue Bragg <[email protected]>, [email protected], ^sue$
>
> It feels a bit garish to me, to call this file author *spellings*.
> Could we just call it _authors or .authors?  Actually, the convention of
> having a file "AUTHORS" that lists prominent contributors exists, but
> I'm not sure it's appropriate for the use you have above.
I'd say same options as we have for boring should probably work,
ie. _darcs/prefs/authors, setpref authorsfile. At least it would give us
consistency, even though the existing setpref interface might not be the best
around. That should be addressed separately though...

Yours,
   Petr.

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