[darcs-users] darcs 2.8 release

Ben Franksen benjamin.franksen at bessy.de
Tue May 8 19:17:33 UTC 2012


Eric Kow wrote:
> On 8 May 2012, at 20:06, Ben Franksen wrote:
>> Florent Becker wrote:
>>> -   Darcs now supports multiple email addresses for the author in
>>> the global prefs file. So, if you use different identities for
>>> home and work, you can now easily select between them.
>>> (issue1530)
>> 
>> Which "global prefs file" is that? I see no mention of such a file in the
>> manual.
> 
> 
> Apologies, that's $HOME/.darcs/prefs/author
> 
> It's kind of documented in the default _darcs/prefs/author
> that gets created for each repository, but really there ought
> to be something proper for it.

I can't even remember reading anything about $HOME/.darcs/prefs/, but maybe 
that is just me getting older...

The only preference file I know about is $HOME/.darcs/defaults.

So I will create this $HOME/.darcs/prefs/author and see...

Thanks

Cheers
Ben



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