[darcs-devel] [issue2320] save prompted author name in ~/.darcs/author instead of ./_darcs/prefs/author

Guillaume Hoffmann bugs at darcs.net
Sat May 11 00:01:05 UTC 2013


New submission from Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh at gmail.com>:

1. Summarise the issue (what were doing, what went wrong?)

On a new system, darcs prompts the user their e-mail address and stores it 
in the _darcs/prefs/author file of the current repository. It does it again 
and again for every new repository.

I observed this annoyed students two years ago when they used darcs (as 
reported in http://darcs.net/Ideas/Education).

2. What behaviour were you expecting instead?

Save e-mail into ~/.darcs/author .

Setting this parameter globally (for the user) is what recommend git and 
mercurial in their help messages, and this is what does bazaar with the 
command "bzr whoami".

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messages: 16803
nosy: gh, jaredj
priority: wishlist
status: unknown
title: save prompted author name in ~/.darcs/author instead of ./_darcs/prefs/author
topic: ProbablyEasy, UI

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