should have a system-wide configuration file (/etc/bazaar/bazaar.conf etc)

Bug #419854 reported by Alexandre Garnier
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Bazaar
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

In shared environments it would be nice to have a global configuration file.
For example, at work, we all use the same aliases, bookmarks and bugtracker definitions.
Having a bazaar.conf on system side over the user's bazaar.conf would be usefull to easily share the same global configuration with local per user configuration.

Tags: config
Martin Pool (mbp)
summary: - should have a global configuration file
+ should have a system-wide configuration file
Changed in bzr:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Vincent Ladeuil (vila) wrote : Re: should have a system-wide configuration file

We also talked about having a project-wide configuration file, there may be room for both, but it can become
hard for a user to understand what is happening when the an option is specified in more than one file.

So we may also need to add the necessary UI to display where a config variable is defined and which of the definitions
is taken into account when. That may be a simple -Dconfig flag so that it's available for every command.

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Vincent Ladeuil (vila) wrote :

Another possibility will be to allow some form of '#include' in configurations files.

Martin Pool (mbp)
summary: - should have a system-wide configuration file
+ should have a system-wide configuration file (/etc/bazaar/bazaar.conf
+ etc)
tags: added: config
Changed in bzr:
assignee: nobody → Thomi Richards (thomir)
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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 419854] Re: should have a system-wide configuration file (/etc/bazaar/bazaar.conf etc)

Hi Thomi,

On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:33 +0000, Thomi Richards wrote:
> ** Changed in: bzr
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Thomi Richards (thomir)

Vincent is also doing a lot of work on the configuration infrastructure
at the moment, including looking at a global configuration file. It
might be good to coordinate with him, although he is on vacation this
week.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

I think Vincent posted and merged all his work. I wouldn't block on him.
On Jul 26, 2011 7:31 PM, "Jelmer Vernooij" <email address hidden>
wrote:
> Hi Thomi,
>
> On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:33 +0000, Thomi Richards wrote:
>> ** Changed in: bzr
>> Assignee: (unassigned) => Thomi Richards (thomir)
>
> Vincent is also doing a lot of work on the configuration infrastructure
> at the moment, including looking at a global configuration file. It
> might be good to coordinate with him, although he is on vacation this
> week.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>
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Changed in bzr:
assignee: Thomi Richards (thomir) → nobody
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
tags: added: check-for-breezy
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
tags: removed: check-for-breezy
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