[darcs-devel] [issue643] darcs get does not get email pref

[Ben Coburn]

On Feb 4, 2008, at 07:28, David Roundy wrote:

>
>
> That last post here wasn't actually from me, but from Matt, I just  
> bounced it to
> the bug tracker.  Anyhow, I agree with him.  email is like motd,  
> it's a
> repository-specific setting.  If I get your repository, there's no  
> reason why
> someone sending patches to my repository should email them to you.
>


Actually, I agree with everyone that the current behavior is correct  
(but I have a small suggestion[1]).... Turns out I just did not  
understand how darcs was looking up the correct email address when  
doing a "darcs send".

To make sure I've go this right.... When doing a "darcs send", darcs  
retrieves the email address stored in the default repository (most  
recently pushed or pulled from, without --no-set-default) and then  
uses that address for the "darcs send".


[1] I think what prompted me to misunderstand this to begin with, was  
that "darcs send -o" does not display the email address that "darcs  
send" would have used. This forces users who can only "darcs send -o"  
to manually look up the email address, possibly from a non-standard  
location in project documentation, which can get out of sync with  
darcs. IMHO, before "darcs send -o" finishes it should print the email  
address to which the user is expected to send the patch.


Regards, Ben Coburn