[darcs-users] Making default email address for 'darcs send' a preference

[Petr Rockai]

Hi,

Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> writes:
> Well, my position on this is probably on the patches welcome side.
> It would be good if the person writing such a patch could work out
> a sensible plan for (a) interacting with the local email pref and
> (b) working with older versions of darcs
I would probably prefer the email pref to be left alone, myself. Maybe better
documentation is in place, but. The idea of the email pref is that it is *not*
part of the *downstream* branch. What you do is

darcs send http://example.com/repo

and then darcs fetches http://example.com/repo/_darcs/prefs/email to see where
to send patches. With the proposed solution, you completely lose that ability,
since now the mail address is recorded in your local repository.

And this is how it should be: you should be able to send patches to different
"upstream" branches from your single downstream branch, and different upstream
branches of the same project should be able to have different emails,
eg. stable-patches at example.org and unstable-patches at example.org, without people
manually excluding the relevant "email" patches all the time from
propagating. This would also screw up tags and so on and so forth in such a
scenario.

Just please don't.

Yours,
   Petr.

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