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List:       darcs-devel
Subject:    [darcs-devel] [issue2320] save prompted author name in ~/.darcs/author instead of	./_darcs/prefs/aut
From:       Guillaume Hoffmann <bugs () darcs ! net>
Date:       2013-05-13 13:34:16
Message-ID: 1368452056.93.0.210826158104.issue2320 () darcs ! net
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Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh@gmail.com> added the comment:

I forgot to put darcs-devel as nosy when I created this ticket, so it 
did not appear on the list. Here it is:

1. Summarise the issue (what were doing, what went wrong?)

On a new system, darcs prompts the user their e-mail address and stores 
it 
in the _darcs/prefs/author file of the current repository. It does it 
again 
and again for every new repository.

I observed this annoyed students two years ago when they used darcs (as 
reported in http://darcs.net/Ideas/Education).

2. What behaviour were you expecting instead?

Save e-mail into ~/.darcs/author .

Setting this parameter globally (for the user) is what recommend git and 
mercurial in their help messages, and this is what does bazaar with the 
command "bzr whoami".

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