On 24 Mar 2009, at 22:47, Max Battcher wrote:
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]"
Bearing in mind what Eric said:
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.
I had no idea you could create a ~/.darcs/author file!
So I say strongly *yes* to Max's idea. My ideal workflow would be
along the lines:
`darcs record` for the first time in a user account
Enter your email
Prompt:
"Would you like to save this as a global email?"
If yes - save to ~/.darcs/author
- Display: "Email saved to ~/.darcs/author"
If no - save to _darcs/prefs/author
- Display: "Email saved for this repo only"
Unless there's a reason why the prompting should include DARCS_EMAIL?
(Is there any reason to use DARCS_EMAIL over ~/.darcs/author?)
Arguably DARCS_EMAIL should take precedence, to allow the user to
override the ~/.darcs/author on a per-command basis.
Finally, would it make sense to display the email that was used to
record each patch as the very last line of the `darcs record` output?
eg:
"Patch created with author: [email protected] (from _darcs/
prefs/author|~/.darcs/author|DARCS_EMAIL)"
Probably not all these changes are necessary. But I've found this to
be one of the few really ugly bits in darcs's interface, and choosing
your identity when you record a patch is important.
Of course, all this is beyond my patching ability ;)
Thanks
Ashley
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