Issue 1960: rethink preferences system - Darcs bug tracker

Title	rethink preferences system
Priority	feature	Status	waiting-for
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder	No commands to set repo-specific preferences like "_darcs/prefs/email", distinguish between local prefs and remote prefs in _darcs/prefs, prefs/{repos,sources,defaultrepo} are confusing and strange when repo is locally copied, version controlled email/motd/etc, version controlled repository-wide preferences View: 1695, 1646, 2183, 1967, 1966	Nosy List	dmitry.kurochkin, kowey
Assigned To		Topics

Created on 2010-09-28.08:24:39 by kowey, last changed 2012-04-25.14:30:18 by owst.

Messages
msg12616 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2010-09-28.08:24:38
This is just an umbrella bug pointing to any other pref system design tickets So far * issue1646 - distinguish between local/global prefs
msg12658 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2010-10-05.19:26:36
See also * issue1695 - ability to set all prefs without editing things in _darcs * issue1966 - repoprefsdir setting * issue1967 - repo-global _darcs/prefs/{email,motd,etc}
msg15620 (view)	Author: owst	Date: 2012-04-25.14:29:29
See also: http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2183 - confusing prefs when locally-cloning/accessing prefs in darcs commands

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-09-28 08:24:39	kowey	create
2010-09-28 08:24:52	kowey	set	status: has-patch -> waiting-for superseder: + distinguish between local prefs and remote prefs in _darcs/prefs
2010-10-05 19:26:37	kowey	set	messages: + msg12658 superseder: + No commands to set repo-specific preferences like "_darcs/prefs/email"
2010-10-05 19:26:50	kowey	set	superseder: + version controlled repository-wide preferences, version controlled email/motd/etc
2012-04-25 14:29:30	owst	set	messages: + msg15620 superseder: + obliterate fail with "Error applying"
2012-04-25 14:30:18	owst	set	superseder: + prefs/{repos,sources,defaultrepo} are confusing and strange when repo is locally copied, - obliterate fail with "Error applying"