2009/3/24 Eric Kow <[email protected]>: > 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.
Possible compromise: What about a simple y/n question after the prompt: "Darcs has noticed that you haven't set a global default, would you like to set this as your default? [yN]" -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
