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Description of the various ways to specify to Bazaar your email address for
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Why set up an email address with Bazaar?
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Bazaar stores the specified email address in revisions when they're
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created so that people can tell who commited which revisions. The
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email addresses are not verified, therefore they could be bogus, so
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you have to trust the people involved in your project. Additionally,
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the email address in a revision gives others a way to contact the
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author of a revision for credit and/or blame. :)
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How to set up your email address
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Bazaar 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 what email to use:
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You can set your email in one of several configuration files. Like
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other configuration values, you can set it in ``bazaar.conf`` as a
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general setting. If you want to override the value for a particular
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branch, or set of branches, you can use ``locations.conf``.
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``.bzr/branch/branch.conf`` will also work, but will cause all commits
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to that branch to use the same email address, even if someone else
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The order of precedence is
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1. If the ``$BZR_EMAIL`` environment variable is set.
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#. If an email is set for your current branch in the ``locations.conf``
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#. If an email is set four your current branch in the
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``.bzr/branch/branch.conf`` file.
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#. If an email is set in the ``bazaar.conf`` default configuration file.
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#. If the `$EMAIL` environment variable is set.
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#. Bazaar will try to guess based on your username and the hostname.
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To check on what Bazaar 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 the 'whoami' command
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You can use the whoami command to set your email globally::
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% bzr whoami 'Joe Cool <joe@example.com>'
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or only for the current branch::
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% bzr whoami --branch 'Joe Cool <joe@example.com>'
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These modify your global ``bazaar.conf`` or branch ``branch.conf`` file, respectively.
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Setting email via default configuration file
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To use the default ini file, create the file ``$HOME/.bazaar/bazaar.conf`` (on
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Windows this is ``%APPDATA%\bazaar\2.0\bazaar.conf``) and set an email address
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as shown below. Please note that the word DEFAULT is case sensitive, and
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must be in upper-case.
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email=Your Name <name@isp.com>
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For more information on the ini file format, see ConfiguringBzr.
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Setting email on a per-branch basis
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The second approach is to set email on a branch by branch basis by
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using the ``$HOME/.bazaar/locations.conf`` configuration file,
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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 variable
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The final method Bazaar will use is checking for the ``$BZR_EMAIL``
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and ``$EMAIL`` environment variables. Generally, you would use this
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method to override the email in a script context. If you would like
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to set a general 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 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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