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<div class="section" id="configuring-bazaar">
<h1>Configuring Bazaar<a class="headerlink" href="#configuring-bazaar" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="telling-bazaar-about-yourself">
<h2>Telling Bazaar about yourself<a class="headerlink" href="#telling-bazaar-about-yourself" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>One function of a version control system is to keep track of who changed
what. In a decentralized system, that requires an identifier for each
author that is globally unique. Most people already have one of these: an
email address. Bazaar is smart enough to automatically generate an email
address by looking up your username and hostname. If you don’t like the
guess that Bazaar makes, then use the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">whoami</span></tt> command to set the
identifier you want:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>% bzr whoami "Your Name <email@example.com>"
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">whoami</span></tt> is used without an argument, the current value is displayed.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="using-a-network-proxy">
<h2>Using a network proxy<a class="headerlink" href="#using-a-network-proxy" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>If your network requires that you use an HTTP proxy for outbound
connections, you must set the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">http_proxy</span></tt> variable. If the proxy is
also required for https connections, you need to set <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">https_proxy</span></tt> too.
If you need these and don’t have them set, you may find that connections
to Launchpad or other external servers fail or time out.</p>
<p>On Unix you typically want to set these in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/etc/environment</span></tt> or
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.bash_profile</span></tt> and on Windows in the user profile.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>http_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:3128/
https_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:3128/
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">no_proxy</span></tt> variable can be set to a comma-separated list of hosts
which shouldn’t be reached by the proxy. (See
<<a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html">http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html</a>> for more details.)</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="various-ways-to-configure">
<h2>Various ways to configure<a class="headerlink" href="#various-ways-to-configure" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>As shown in the example above, there are various ways to
configure Bazaar, they all share some common properties though.
An option has:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>a name which is generally a valid python identifier,</li>
<li>a value which is a string. In some cases, Bazaar will be able
to recognize special values like ‘True’, ‘False’ to infer a
boolean type, but basically, as a user, you will always specify
a value as a string.</li>
</ul>
<p>Options are grouped in various contexts so the option name
uniquely identifies it in this context. When needed, options can
be made persistent by recording them in a configuration file.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="configuration-files">
<h2>Configuration files<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration-files" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Configuration files are located in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$HOME/.bazaar</span></tt> on Unix and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C:\Documents</span> <span class="pre">and</span> <span class="pre">Settings\<username>\Application</span> <span class="pre">Data\Bazaar\2.0</span></tt> on
Windows. There are three primary configuration files in this location:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bazaar.conf</span></tt> describes default configuration options,</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">locations.conf</span></tt> describes configuration information for
specific branch locations,</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">authentication.conf</span></tt> describes credential information for
remote servers.</li>
</ul>
<p>Each branch can also contain a configuration file that sets values specific
to that branch. This file is found at <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.bzr/branch/branch.conf</span></tt> within the
branch. This file is visible to <strong>all users of a branch</strong>. If you wish to
override one of the values for a branch with a setting that is specific to you,
then you can do so in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">locations.conf</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Here is sample content of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bazaar.conf</span></tt> after setting an email address using
the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">whoami</span></tt> command:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>[DEFAULT]
email = Your Name <email@example.com>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>For further details on the syntax and configuration settings supported, see
<a class="reference external" href="../user-reference/index.html#configuration-settings">Configuration Settings</a>
in the Bazaar User Reference.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="looking-at-the-active-configuration">
<h2>Looking at the active configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#looking-at-the-active-configuration" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>To look at all the currently defined options, you can use the following
command:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>bzr config
</pre></div>
</div>
<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span></tt> implements some rules to decide where to get the value of a
configuration option.</p>
<p>The current policy is to examine the existing configurations files in a
given order for matching definitions.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">locations.conf</span></tt> is searched first for a section whose name matches the
location considered (working tree, branch or remote branch),</li>
<li>the current <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">branch.conf</span></tt> is searched next,</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bazaar.conf</span></tt> is searched next,</li>
<li>finally, some options can have default values generally defined in the
code itself and not displayed by <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">config</span></tt> (see <a class="reference external" href="../user-reference/index.html#configuration-settings">Configuration
Settings</a>).</li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
<p>This is better understood by using <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">`bzr</span> <span class="pre">config</span></tt> with no arguments, which
will display some output of the form:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>locations:
post_commit_to = commits@example.com
news_merge_files = NEWS
branch:
parent_location = bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/+branch/bzr/
nickname = config-modify
push_location = bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vila/bzr/config-modify/
bazaar:
debug_flags = hpss,
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Each configuration file is associated with a given scope whose name is
displayed before each set of defined options.</p>
<p>If you need to look at a specific option, you can use:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>bzr config <option>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This will display only the option value and is intended to be used in
scripts.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="modifying-the-active-configuration">
<h2>Modifying the active configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#modifying-the-active-configuration" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>To set an option to a given value use:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>bzr config opt=value
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>An option value can reference another option by enclosing it in curly
braces:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>bzr config opt={other_opt}/subdir
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">other_opt</span></tt> is set to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'root</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">config</span> <span class="pre">opt</span></tt> will display:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">root</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">subdir</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Note that when <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--all</span></tt> is used, the references are left as-is to better
reflect the content of the config files and make it easier to organize them:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>bzr config --all .*opt
bazaar:
[DEFAULT]
opt = {other_opt}/subdir
other_opt = root
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>To remove an option use:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>bzr config --remove opt
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="rule-based-preferences">
<h2>Rule-based preferences<a class="headerlink" href="#rule-based-preferences" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Some commands and plugins provide custom processing on files matching
certain patterns. Per-user rule-based preferences are defined in
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BZR_HOME/rules</span></tt>.</p>
<p>For further information on how rules are searched and the detailed syntax of
the relevant files, see <a class="reference external" href="../user-reference/index.html#rules">Rules</a>
in the Bazaar User Reference.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="escaping-command-lines">
<h2>Escaping command lines<a class="headerlink" href="#escaping-command-lines" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>When you give a program name or command line in configuration, you can quote
to include special characters or whitespace. The same rules are used across
all platforms.</p>
<p>The rules are: strings surrounded by double-quotes are interpreted as single
“words” even if they contain whitespace, and backslash may be used to quote
quotation marks. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">BZR_EDITOR</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"C:\Program Files\My Editor\myeditor.exe"</span>
</pre></div>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#telling-bazaar-about-yourself">Telling Bazaar about yourself</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#using-a-network-proxy">Using a network proxy</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#various-ways-to-configure">Various ways to configure</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#configuration-files">Configuration files</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#looking-at-the-active-configuration">Looking at the active configuration</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#modifying-the-active-configuration">Modifying the active configuration</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#rule-based-preferences">Rule-based preferences</a></li>
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