[darcs-devel] [issue1695] No commands to set repo-specific preferences like "_darcs/prefs/email"

[Jonathan Daugherty]

New submission from Jonathan Daugherty <drcygnus at gmail.com>:

There are commands to set preferences which "travel with the repo,"
such as test, predist, and boringfile.  Some prefs, such as "email",
cannot be set with the darcs command-line interface.  Since I think
it's reasonable to want to make _darcs completely opaque and since I
think it's reasonable to have a consistent command-line interface, I
propose providing a darcs command to set such preferences.  Some
possible command names are "localpref", "repopref", and "setdefault".
My goal is to prevent people from having to edit (or know about) files
like _darcs/prefs/email.  On a related note, it would be good to make
it clear which preferences are repository-specific and which come with
a checkout.

Thoughts?

-- 
  Jonathan Daugherty

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title: No commands to set repo-specific preferences like "_darcs/prefs/email"

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