[darcs-users] darcs 2.8 release

Ben Franksen benjamin.franksen at bessy.de
Thu May 10 01:56:36 UTC 2012


Ben Franksen wrote:
> 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...

It does not work. I think the correct path is $HOME/.darcs/author, at least 
that is what darcs says in teh comment in the _darcs/prefs/author it 
generated.

Cheers
Ben



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