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Telling Bazaar about yourself
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One function of a version control system is to keep track of who changed
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what. In a decentralized system, that requires an identifier for each
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author that is globally unique. Most people already have one of these: an
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email address. Bazaar is smart enough to automatically generate an email
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address by looking up your username and hostname. If you don't like the
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guess that Bazaar makes, then use the ``whoami`` command to set the
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% bzr whoami "Your Name <email@example.com>"
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If ``whoami`` is used without an argument, the current value is displayed.
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Configuration files are located in ``$HOME/.bazaar`` on Linux/Unix and
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``C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Bazaar\2.0`` on
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Windows. There are three primary configuration files in this location:
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* ``bazaar.conf`` describes default configuration options,
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* ``locations.conf`` describes configuration information for
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specific branch locations,
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* ``authentication.conf`` describes credential information for
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Each branch can also contain a configuration file that sets values specific
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to that branch. This file is found at ``.bzr/branch/branch.conf`` within the
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branch. This file is visible to all users of a branch, if you wish to override
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one of the values for a branch with a setting that is specific to you then you
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can do so in ``locations.conf``.
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Here is sample content of ``bazaar.conf`` after setting an email address using
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the ``whoami`` command::
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email = Your Name <email@example.com>
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For further details on the syntax and configuration settings supported, see
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`Configuration reference`_ in the appendices.
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