[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. -- Peter Rockai | me()mornfall!net | prockai()redhat!com http://blog.mornfall.net | http://web.mornfall.net "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton on the subject of C program indentation _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
