Hi Kevin, Haven't heard from you in a while. Note that we've merged the lists, so any discussion to darcs-devel actually belongs in darcs-users now.
I'm inclined to agree with Kevin about leaving the actual behaviour as is. I wouldn't mind a help text that more strongly encouraged the use of ~/.darcs/author or DARCS_EMAIL. In general, I tend to be nervous about setting global things automatically, because I suspect that what tends to happen is that users don't notice it and the system becomes a lot more magical and less transparent. Not sure if I'm making a lot of sense, though. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:20:02 -0600, [email protected] wrote: > Quoting Max Battcher <[email protected]>: > > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Trent Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I strongly feel that this prompt should write ~/.darcs/author, *not* > > > _darcs/prefs/author. I think it is far more likely that two users will > > > share a repo (in which case _darcs is wrong) than that two users will > > > share a $HOME. > > > > +1. > > -1 for me. > > I disagree that two users will share a repo: each user should have their own > clone of the repo and work there, otherwise they have conflicts editing the > same files, running simultaneous builds, and all sorts of other non- > deterministic behavior. Darcs is a distributed SCM after all... > > The second reason is that the user may want different author ids for > different > repos. For example, I use darcs at work and darcs for personal stuff: I use > a > different author for both of these. > > I think it's good to use: > 1. _darcs/prefs/author > 2. DARCS_EMAIL > 3. ~/.darcs/author > 4. EMAIL > > in that order, but if none of the above are set, the darcs prompt should set > _darcs/prefs/author. > > -KQ -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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