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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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If your network requires that you use an HTTP proxy for outbound
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connections, you must set the ``http_proxy`` variable. If the proxy is
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also required for https connections, you need to set ``https_proxy`` too.
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If you need these and don't have them set, you may find that connections
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to Launchpad or other external servers fail or time out.
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On Unix you typically want to set these in ``/etc/environment`` or
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``~/.bash_profile`` and on Windows in the user profile.
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http_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:3128/
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https_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:3128/
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The ``no_proxy`` variable can be set to a comma-separated list of hosts
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which shouldn't be reached by the proxy. (See
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<http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html> for more details.)
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Configuration files are located in ``$HOME/.bazaar`` on 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
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override one of the values for a branch with a setting that is specific to you,
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then you 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 Settings <../user-reference/index.html#configuration-settings>`_
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in the Bazaar User Reference.
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Looking at the active configuration
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To look at all the currently defined options, you can use the following
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``bzr`` implements some rules to decide where to get the value of a
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The current policy is to examine the existing configurations files in a
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given order for matching definitions.
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* ``locations.conf`` is searched first for a section whose name matches the
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location considered (working tree, branch or remote branch),
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* the current ``branch.conf`` is searched next,
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* ``bazaar.conf`` is searched next,
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* finally, some options can have default values generally defined in the
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code itself and not displayed by ``bzr config`` (see `Configuration
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Settings <../user-reference/index.html#configuration-settings>`_).
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This is better understood by using ```bzr config`` with no arguments, which
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will display some output of the form::
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post_commit_to = commits@example.com
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news_merge_files = NEWS
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parent_location = bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/+branch/bzr/
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nickname = config-modify
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push_location = bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vila/bzr/config-modify/
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Each configuration file is associated with a given scope whose name is
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displayed before each set of defined options.
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Modifying the active configuration
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To set an option to a given value use::
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To remove an option use::
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bzr config --remove opt
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Rule-based preferences
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Some commands and plugins provide custom processing on files matching
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certain patterns. Per-user rule-based preferences are defined in
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For further information on how rules are searched and the detailed syntax of
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the relevant files, see `Rules <../user-reference/index.html#rules>`_
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in the Bazaar User Reference.
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Escaping command lines
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When you give a program name or command line in configuration, you can quote
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to include special characters or whitespace. The same rules are used across
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The rules are: strings surrounded by double-quotes are interpreted as single
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"words" even if they contain whitespace, and backslash may be used to quote
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quotation marks. For example::
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BZR_EDITOR="C:\Program Files\My Editor\myeditor.exe"