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

[Trent W. Buck]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 03:46:48PM -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> Trent W. Buck wrote:
>
>> We could set it up so that "darcs setpref author" will emit a warning
>> like
>>
>>     WARNING: this probably isn't the workflow you want; if you use
>>     setpref for this, it will propagate to all downstream repos.
>>     Instead, you probably want to edit _darcs/prefs/author by hand.
>>     ...
>
> sounds annoying. editing files by hand, and being told to do that.

That's the current behaviour (well, it doesn't tell you to).

> Could "darcs setpref" then have a flag (like --no-propagate or
> something) that tells it to just edit the appropriate file instead
> of its process of making a patch?

That seems reasonable to me.