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Why set up an email address with Bazaar-NG?
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Bazaar-NG stores the claimed email address in revisions when they're
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created, so that people can tell who commited which revisions. Of course,
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people can change the email address claimed, so you have to trust the
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people involved. Additionally, the email address in a revision gives
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others a way to contact the author of a revision for credit and/or blame.
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How to setup your email address
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Bazaar-NG will try to guess an email address based on your username and the
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hostname if none is set. This will probably not be what you want, so three
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ways exist to tell Bazaar-NG what email to use
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* You can set your email in the default ini file,
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* You can set emails per-branch in the branch specific ini file,
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* Or your email can be set by an environmental variable.
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The order of precedence is
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1. If the `$BZREMAIL` env variable is set, use it.
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2. If an email is set for your current branch in the `branches.conf` ini file.
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3. If an email is set in the `bazaar.conf` default ini file.
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4. If the `$EMAIL` env variable is set.
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5. Bazaar-NG will try to guess based on your username and the hostname.
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To check on what Bazaar-NG thinks your current email is, use the '''whoami'''
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("who am i?") command::
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Joe Cool <joe@example.com>
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Setting email via default ini file
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The first method is using the default ini file. To use the default ini
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method, create the file `$HOME/.bazaar/bazaar.conf` (on Windows this is
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`%APPDATA%\bazaar\2.0\bazaar.conf`) and set an email address as shown
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below. Please note that the word DEFAULT is case sensitive, and must be in
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email=Your Name <name@isp.com>
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For more information on the ini file format, see ConfiguringBzr.
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Setting email on a per-branch basis
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The second approach is to set email on a branch by branch basis by using the
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`$HOME/.bazaar/branches.conf` ini file, thusly::
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[/some/branch/location]
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email=Your Name <name@other-isp.com>
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This will set your email address in the branch at `/some/branch/location`,
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overriding the default specified in the `bazaar.conf` above.
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Setting email via environment
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The final method Bazaar-NG will use is checking for the `$BZREMAIL` and
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`$EMAIL` environment variables. Generally, one would use this method to
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override the email in a script context. If you would like to set a general
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default, then please see the ini methods above.
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Some people want to avoid sharing their email address so as not to get
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spam. Bazaar-NG will never disclose your email address, unless you publish
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a branch or changeset in a public location. It's recommended that you
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''do'' use a real address, so that people can contact you about your work,
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but it's not required. You can use an address which is obfuscated, which
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bounces, or which goes through an anti-spam service such as
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