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<div class="section" id="configuration-settings">
<h1>Configuration Settings<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration-settings" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="environment-settings">
<h2>Environment settings<a class="headerlink" href="#environment-settings" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>While most configuration is handled by configuration files, some options
which may be semi-permanent can also be controlled through the environment.</p>
<div class="section" id="bzr-email">
<h3>BZR_EMAIL<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-email" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Override the email id used by Bazaar. Typical format:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="s2">"John Doe <jdoe@example.com>"</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>See also the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">email</span></code> configuration option.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzr-progress-bar">
<h3>BZR_PROGRESS_BAR<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-progress-bar" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Override the progress display. Possible values are “none” or “text”. If
the value is “none” then no progress bar is displayed. The value “text” draws
the ordinary command line progress bar.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzr-sigquit-pdb">
<h3>BZR_SIGQUIT_PDB<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-sigquit-pdb" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Control whether SIGQUIT behaves normally or invokes a breakin debugger.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>0 = Standard SIGQUIT behavior (normally, exit with a core dump)</li>
<li>1 = Invoke breakin debugger (default)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzr-home">
<h3>BZR_HOME<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-home" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Override the home directory used by Bazaar.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzr-ssh">
<h3>BZR_SSH<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-ssh" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Select a different SSH implementation.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzr-pdb">
<h3>BZR_PDB<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-pdb" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Control whether to launch a debugger on error.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>0 = Standard behavior</li>
<li>1 = Launch debugger</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzr-remote-path">
<h3>BZR_REMOTE_PATH<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-remote-path" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Path to the Bazaar executable to use when using the bzr+ssh protocol.</p>
<p>See also the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bzr_remote_path</span></code> configuration option.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzr-editor">
<h3>BZR_EDITOR<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-editor" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Path to the editor Bazaar should use for commit messages, etc.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzr-log">
<h3>BZR_LOG<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-log" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Location of the Bazaar log file. You can check the current location by
running <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">version</span></code>.</p>
<p>The log file contains debug information that is useful for diagnosing or
reporting problems with Bazaar.</p>
<p>Setting this to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NUL</span></code> on Windows or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/dev/null</span></code> on other platforms
will disable logging.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzr-plugin-path">
<h3>BZR_PLUGIN_PATH<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-plugin-path" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The path to the plugins directory that Bazaar should use.
If not set, Bazaar will search for plugins in:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>the user specific plugin directory (containing the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">user</span></code> plugins),</li>
<li>the bzrlib directory (containing the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">core</span></code> plugins),</li>
<li>the site specific plugin directory if applicable (containing
the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">site</span></code> plugins).</li>
</ul>
<p>If <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BZR_PLUGIN_PATH</span></code> is set in any fashion, it will change the
the way the plugin are searched.</p>
<p>As for the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PATH</span></code> variables, if multiple directories are
specified in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BZR_PLUGIN_PATH</span></code> they should be separated by the
platform specific appropriate character (‘:’ on Unix,
‘;’ on windows)</p>
<p>By default if <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BZR_PLUGIN_PATH</span></code> is set, it replaces searching
in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">user</span></code>. However it will continue to search in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">core</span></code> and
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">site</span></code> unless they are explicitly removed.</p>
<p>If you need to change the order or remove one of these
directories, you should use special values:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-user</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-core</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-site</span></code> will remove the corresponding
path from the default values,</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">+user</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">+core</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">+site</span></code> will add the corresponding path
before the remaining default values (and also remove it from
the default values).</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that the special values ‘user’, ‘core’ and ‘site’ should be
used literally, they will be substituted by the corresponding,
platform specific, values.</p>
<p>The examples below use ‘:’ as the separator, windows users
should use ‘;’.</p>
<p>Overriding the default user plugin directory:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">BZR_PLUGIN_PATH</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">'/path/to/my/other/plugins'</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Disabling the site directory while retaining the user directory:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">BZR_PLUGIN_PATH</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">'-site:+user'</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Disabling all plugins (better achieved with –no-plugins):</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">BZR_PLUGIN_PATH</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">'-user:-core:-site'</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Overriding the default site plugin directory:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">BZR_PLUGIN_PATH</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">'/path/to/my/site/plugins:-site'</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">user</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzr-disable-plugins">
<h3>BZR_DISABLE_PLUGINS<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-disable-plugins" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Under special circumstances (mostly when trying to diagnose a
bug), it’s better to disable a plugin (or several) rather than
uninstalling them completely. Such plugins can be specified in
the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BZR_DISABLE_PLUGINS</span></code> environment variable.</p>
<p>In that case, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bzr</span></code> will stop loading the specified plugins and
will raise an import error if they are explicitly imported (by
another plugin that depends on them for example).</p>
<p>Disabling <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">myplugin</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">yourplugin</span></code> is achieved by:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">BZR_DISABLE_PLUGINS</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">'myplugin:yourplugin'</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzr-plugins-at">
<h3>BZR_PLUGINS_AT<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-plugins-at" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>When adding a new feature or working on a bug in a plugin,
developers often need to use a specific version of a given
plugin. Since python requires that the directory containing the
code is named like the plugin itself this make it impossible to
use arbitrary directory names (using a two-level directory scheme
is inconvenient). <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BZR_PLUGINS_AT</span></code> allows such directories even
if they don’t appear in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BZR_PLUGIN_PATH</span></code> .</p>
<p>Plugins specified in this environment variable takes precedence
over the ones in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BZR_PLUGIN_PATH</span></code>.</p>
<p>The variable specified a list of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">plugin_name@plugin</span> <span class="pre">path</span></code>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">plugin_name</span></code> being the name of the plugin as it appears in
python module paths, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">plugin_path</span></code> being the path to the
directory containing the plugin code itself
(i.e. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">plugins/myplugin</span></code> not <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">plugins</span></code>). Use ‘:’ as the list
separator, use ‘;’ on windows.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="example">
<h3>Example:<a class="headerlink" href="#example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Using a specific version of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">myplugin</span></code>:
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BZR_PLUGINS_AT='myplugin@/home/me/bugfixes/123456-myplugin</span></code></p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bzrpath">
<h3>BZRPATH<a class="headerlink" href="#bzrpath" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The path where Bazaar should look for shell plugin external commands.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="http-proxy-https-proxy">
<h3>http_proxy, https_proxy<a class="headerlink" href="#http-proxy-https-proxy" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Specifies the network proxy for outgoing connections, for example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">http_proxy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">http</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">//</span><span class="n">proxy</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">3128</span><span class="o">/</span>
<span class="n">https_proxy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">http</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">//</span><span class="n">proxy</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">3128</span><span class="o">/</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="configuration-files">
<h2>Configuration files<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration-files" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="location">
<h3>Location<a class="headerlink" href="#location" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Configuration files are located in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$HOME/.bazaar</span></code> on Unix and
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><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></code> on
Windows. (You can check the location for your system by using
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">version</span></code>.)</p>
<p>There are three primary configuration files in this location:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bazaar.conf</span></code> describes default configuration options,</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">locations.conf</span></code> describes configuration information for
specific branch locations,</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">authentication.conf</span></code> 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 <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.bzr/branch/branch.conf</span></code> within the
branch. This file is visible to all users of a branch, 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 <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">locations.conf</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="general-format">
<h3>General format<a class="headerlink" href="#general-format" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>An ini file has three types of contructs: section headers, section
options and comments.</p>
<div class="section" id="comments">
<h4>Comments<a class="headerlink" href="#comments" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>A comment is any line that starts with a “#” (sometimes called a “hash
mark”, “pound sign” or “number sign”). Comment lines are ignored by
Bazaar when parsing ini files.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="section-headers">
<h4>Section headers<a class="headerlink" href="#section-headers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>A section header is a word enclosed in brackets that starts at the begining
of a line. A typical section header looks like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">DEFAULT</span><span class="p">]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The only valid section headers for bazaar.conf currently are [DEFAULT] and
[ALIASES]. Section headers are case sensitive. The default section provides for
setting options which can be overridden with the branch config file.</p>
<p>For <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">locations.conf</span></code>, the options from the section with the
longest matching section header are used to the exclusion of other
potentially valid section headers. A section header uses the path for
the branch as the section header. Some examples include:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">http</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">//</span><span class="n">mybranches</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isp</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span><span class="o">/~</span><span class="n">jdoe</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">branchdir</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">home</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">jdoe</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">branches</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="section-options">
<h4>Section options<a class="headerlink" href="#section-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>A section option resides within a section. A section option contains an
option name, an equals sign and a value. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">email</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">John</span> <span class="n">Doe</span> <span class="o"><</span><span class="n">jdoe</span><span class="nd">@isp</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span><span class="o">></span>
<span class="n">gpg_signing_key</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Amy</span> <span class="n">Pond</span> <span class="o"><</span><span class="n">amy</span><span class="nd">@example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span><span class="o">></span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>A option can reference other options by enclosing them in curly brackets:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">my_branch_name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">feature_x</span>
<span class="n">my_server</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">bzr</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">ssh</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">//</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span>
<span class="n">push_location</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="n">my_server</span><span class="p">}</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">project</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="n">my_branch_name</span><span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="option-policies">
<h4>Option policies<a class="headerlink" href="#option-policies" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>Options defined in a section affect the named directory or URL plus
any locations they contain. Policies can be used to change how an
option value is interpreted for contained locations. Currently
there are three policies available:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><dl class="docutils">
<dt>none:</dt>
<dd>the value is interpreted the same for contained locations. This is
the default behaviour.</dd>
<dt>norecurse:</dt>
<dd>the value is only used for the exact location specified by the
section name.</dd>
<dt>appendpath:</dt>
<dd>for contained locations, any additional path components are
appended to the value.</dd>
</dl>
</div></blockquote>
<p>Policies are specified by keys with names of the form “<option_name>:policy”.
For example, to define the push location for a tree of branches, the
following could be used:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">top</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">location</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">push_location</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">sftp</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">//</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">location</span>
<span class="n">push_location</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">policy</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">appendpath</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>With this configuration, the push location for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/top/location/branch1</span></code>
would be <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sftp://example.com/location/branch1</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="section-local-options">
<h4>Section local options<a class="headerlink" href="#section-local-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>Some options are defined automatically inside a given section and can be
refered to in this section only.</p>
<p>For example, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">appendpath</span></code> policy can be used like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">home</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">vila</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">src</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bzr</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bugs</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">mypush</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">lp</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">~</span><span class="n">vila</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bzr</span>
<span class="n">mypush</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">policy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">appendpath</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">relpath</span></code> to achieve the same result is done like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">home</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">vila</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">src</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bzr</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bugs</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">mypush</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">lp</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">~</span><span class="n">vila</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bzr</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="n">relpath</span><span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>In both cases, when used in a directory like
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/home/vila/src/bzr/bugs/832013-expand-in-stack</span></code> we’ll get:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ bzr config mypush
lp:~vila/bzr/832013-expand-in-stack
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Another such option is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">basename</span></code> which can be used like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">home</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">vila</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">src</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bzr</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">mypush</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">lp</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">~</span><span class="n">vila</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bzr</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="n">basename</span><span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>When used in a directory like
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/home/vila/src/bzr/bugs/832013-expand-in-stack</span></code> we’ll get:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ bzr config mypush
lp:~vila/bzr/832013-expand-in-stack
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Note that <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">basename</span></code> here refers to the base name of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">relpath</span></code> which
itself is defined as the relative path between the section name and the
location it matches.</p>
<p>Another such option is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">branchname</span></code>, which refers to the name of a colocated
branch. For non-colocated branches, it behaves like basename. It can be used
like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">home</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">vila</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">src</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bzr</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bugs</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">mypush</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">lp</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">~</span><span class="n">vila</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bzr</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="n">branchname</span><span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>When used with a colocated branch named <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">832013-expand-in-stack</span></code>, we’ll get:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">bzr</span> <span class="n">config</span> <span class="n">mypush</span>
<span class="n">lp</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">~</span><span class="n">vila</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">bzr</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="mi">832013</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">expand</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="ow">in</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">stack</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>When an option is local to a Section, it cannot be referred to from option
values in any other section from the same <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Store</span></code> nor from any other
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Store</span></code>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-main-configuration-file-bazaar-conf">
<h3>The main configuration file, bazaar.conf<a class="headerlink" href="#the-main-configuration-file-bazaar-conf" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bazaar.conf</span></code> allows two sections: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">[DEFAULT]</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">[ALIASES]</span></code>.
The default section contains the default
configuration options for all branches. The default section can be
overriden by providing a branch-specific section in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">locations.conf</span></code>.</p>
<p>A typical <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bazaar.conf</span></code> section often looks like the following:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">DEFAULT</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">email</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">John</span> <span class="n">Doe</span> <span class="o"><</span><span class="n">jdoe</span><span class="nd">@isp</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span><span class="o">></span>
<span class="n">editor</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">usr</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nb">bin</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">vim</span>
<span class="n">create_signatures</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">when</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">required</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-branch-location-configuration-file-locations-conf">
<h3>The branch location configuration file, locations.conf<a class="headerlink" href="#the-branch-location-configuration-file-locations-conf" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">locations.conf</span></code> allows one to specify overriding settings for
a specific branch. The format is almost identical to the default section in
bazaar.conf with one significant change: The section header, instead of saying
default, will be the path to a branch that you wish to override a value
for. The ‘?’ and ‘*’ wildcards are supported:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">home</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">jdoe</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">branches</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">nethack</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">email</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Nethack</span> <span class="n">Admin</span> <span class="o"><</span><span class="n">nethack</span><span class="nd">@nethack</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span><span class="o">></span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="n">http</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="o">//</span><span class="n">hypothetical</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">site</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">branches</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">devel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">branch</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">create_signatures</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">always</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-authentication-configuration-file-authentication-conf">
<h3>The authentication configuration file, authentication.conf<a class="headerlink" href="#the-authentication-configuration-file-authentication-conf" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">authentication.conf</span></code> allows one to specify credentials for
remote servers. This can be used for all the supported transports and any part
of bzr that requires authentication (smtp for example).</p>
<p>The syntax of the file obeys the same rules as the others except for the
option policies which don’t apply.</p>
<p>For more information on the possible uses of the authentication configuration
file see <a class="reference internal" href="authentication-help.html"><span class="doc">Authentication Settings</span></a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="common-options">
<h2>Common options<a class="headerlink" href="#common-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="debug-flags">
<h3>debug_flags<a class="headerlink" href="#debug-flags" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>A comma-separated list of debugging options to turn on. The same values
can be used as with the -D command-line option (see <cite>help global-options</cite>).
For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">debug_flags</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">hpss</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>or:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">debug_flags</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">hpss</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">evil</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="email">
<h3>email<a class="headerlink" href="#email" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The email address to use when committing a branch. Typically takes the form
of:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">email</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Full</span> <span class="n">Name</span> <span class="o"><</span><span class="n">account</span><span class="nd">@hostname</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tld</span><span class="o">></span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="editor">
<h3>editor<a class="headerlink" href="#editor" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The path of the editor that you wish to use if <em>bzr commit</em> is run without
a commit message. This setting is trumped by the environment variable
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BZR_EDITOR</span></code>, and overrides the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">VISUAL</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">EDITOR</span></code> environment
variables.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="log-format">
<h3>log_format<a class="headerlink" href="#log-format" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The default log format to use. Standard log formats are <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">long</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">short</span></code>
and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">line</span></code>. Additional formats may be provided by plugins. The default
value is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">long</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="check-signatures">
<h3>check_signatures<a class="headerlink" href="#check-signatures" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Reserved for future use. These options will allow a policy for branches to
require signatures.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>require</dt>
<dd>The gnupg signature for revisions must be present and must be valid.</dd>
<dt>ignore</dt>
<dd>Do not check gnupg signatures of revisions.</dd>
<dt>check-available</dt>
<dd>(default) If gnupg signatures for revisions are present, check them.
Bazaar will fail if it finds a bad signature, but will not fail if
no signature is present.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="create-signatures">
<h3>create_signatures<a class="headerlink" href="#create-signatures" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Defines the behaviour of signing revisions on commits. By default bzr will not
sign new commits.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>always</dt>
<dd>Sign every new revision that is committed. If the signing fails then the
commit will not be made.</dd>
<dt>when-required</dt>
<dd>Reserved for future use.</dd>
<dt>never</dt>
<dd>Reserved for future use.</dd>
</dl>
<p>In future it is planned that <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">when-required</span></code> will sign newly
committed revisions only when the branch requires them. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">never</span></code> will refuse
to sign newly committed revisions, even if the branch requires signatures.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="dirstate-fdatasync">
<h3>dirstate.fdatasync<a class="headerlink" href="#dirstate-fdatasync" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If true (default), working tree metadata changes are flushed through the
OS buffers to physical disk. This is somewhat slower, but means data
should not be lost if the machine crashes. See also repository.fdatasync.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="gpg-signing-key">
<h3>gpg_signing_key<a class="headerlink" href="#gpg-signing-key" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The GnuPG user identity to use when signing commits. Can be an e-mail
address, key fingerprint or full key ID. When unset or when set to
“default” Bazaar will use the user e-mail set with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">whoami</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="recurse">
<h3>recurse<a class="headerlink" href="#recurse" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Only useful in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">locations.conf</span></code>. Defines whether or not the
configuration for this section applies to subdirectories:</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>true</dt>
<dd>(default) This section applies to subdirectories as well.</dd>
<dt>false</dt>
<dd>This section only applies to the branch at this directory and not
branches below it.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="gpg-signing-command">
<h3>gpg_signing_command<a class="headerlink" href="#gpg-signing-command" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>(Default: “gpg”). Which program should be used to sign and check revisions.
For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">gpg_signing_command</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">usr</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nb">bin</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">gnpg</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The specified command must accept the options “–clearsign” and “-u <email>”.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id1">
<h3>bzr_remote_path<a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>(Default: “bzr”). The path to the command that should be used to run the smart
server for bzr. This value may only be specified in locations.conf, because:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>it’s needed before branch.conf is accessible</li>
<li>allowing remote branch.conf files to specify commands would be a security
risk</li>
</ul>
<p>It is overridden by the BZR_REMOTE_PATH environment variable.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="smtp-server">
<h3>smtp_server<a class="headerlink" href="#smtp-server" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>(Default: “localhost”). SMTP server to use when Bazaar needs to send
email, eg. with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">merge-directive</span> <span class="pre">--mail-to</span></code>, or the bzr-email plugin.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="smtp-username-smtp-password">
<h3>smtp_username, smtp_password<a class="headerlink" href="#smtp-username-smtp-password" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>User and password to authenticate to the SMTP server. If smtp_username
is set, and smtp_password is not, Bazaar will prompt for a password.
These settings are only needed if the SMTP server requires authentication
to send mail.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="locks-steal-dead">
<h3>locks.steal_dead<a class="headerlink" href="#locks-steal-dead" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If set to true, bzr will automatically break locks held by processes from
the same machine and user that are no longer alive. Otherwise, it will
print a message and you can break the lock manually, if you are satisfied
the object is no longer in use.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="mail-client">
<h3>mail_client<a class="headerlink" href="#mail-client" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>A mail client to use for sending merge requests.
By default, bzr will try to use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mapi</span></code> on Windows. On other platforms, it
will try <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xdg-email</span></code>. If either of these fails, it will fall back to
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">editor</span></code>.</p>
<p>Supported values for specific clients:</p>
<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="field-name" />
<col class="field-body" />
<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">claws:</th><td class="field-body">Use Claws. This skips a dialog for attaching files.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">evolution:</th><td class="field-body">Use Evolution.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">kmail:</th><td class="field-body">Use KMail.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">mutt:</th><td class="field-body">Use Mutt.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">thunderbird:</th><td class="field-body">Use Mozilla Thunderbird or Icedove. For Thunderbird/Icedove 1.5,
this works around some bugs that xdg-email doesn’t handle.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Supported generic values are:</p>
<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="field-name" />
<col class="field-body" />
<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">default:</th><td class="field-body">See above.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">editor:</th><td class="field-body">Use your editor to compose the merge request. This also uses
your commit id, (see <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">whoami</span></code>), smtp_server and (optionally)
smtp_username and smtp_password.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">mapi:</th><td class="field-body">Use your preferred e-mail client on Windows.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">xdg-email:</th><td class="field-body">Use xdg-email to run your preferred mail program</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="repository-fdatasync">
<h3>repository.fdatasync<a class="headerlink" href="#repository-fdatasync" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If true (default), repository changes are flushed through the OS buffers
to physical disk. This is somewhat slower, but means data should not be
lost if the machine crashes. See also dirstate.fdatasync.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="submit-branch">
<h3>submit_branch<a class="headerlink" href="#submit-branch" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The branch you intend to submit your current work to. This is automatically
set by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">send</span></code>, and is also used by the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">submit:</span></code> revision spec. This
should usually be set on a per-branch or per-location basis.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="public-branch">
<h3>public_branch<a class="headerlink" href="#public-branch" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>A publically-accessible version of this branch (implying that this version is
not publically-accessible). Used (and set) by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">send</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="suppress-warnings">
<h3>suppress_warnings<a class="headerlink" href="#suppress-warnings" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>A list of strings, each string represent a warning that can be emitted by
bzr. Mentioning a warning in this list tells bzr to not emit it.</p>
<p>Valid values:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><dl class="first docutils">
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">format_deprecation</span></code>:</dt>
<dd>whether the format deprecation warning is shown on repositories that are
using deprecated formats.</dd>
</dl>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="default-format">
<h3>default_format<a class="headerlink" href="#default-format" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>A format name for the default format used when creating branches. See <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bzr</span>
<span class="pre">help</span> <span class="pre">formats</span></code> for possible values.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="unicode-options">
<h2>Unicode options<a class="headerlink" href="#unicode-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="output-encoding">
<h3>output_encoding<a class="headerlink" href="#output-encoding" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>A Python unicode encoding name for text output from bzr, such as log
information. Values include: utf8, cp850, ascii, iso-8859-1. The default
is the terminal encoding prefered by the operating system.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="branch-type-specific-options">
<h2>Branch type specific options<a class="headerlink" href="#branch-type-specific-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>These options apply only to branches that use the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dirstate-tags</span></code> or
later format. They
are usually set in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.bzr/branch/branch.conf</span></code> automatically, but may be
manually set in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">locations.conf</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bazaar.conf</span></code>.</p>
<div class="section" id="append-revisions-only">
<h3>append_revisions_only<a class="headerlink" href="#append-revisions-only" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If set to “True” then revisions can only be appended to the log, not
removed. A branch with this setting enabled can only pull from another
branch if the other branch’s log is a longer version of its own. This is
normally set by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">init</span> <span class="pre">--append-revisions-only</span></code>. If you set it
manually, use either ‘True’ or ‘False’ (case-sensitive) to maintain
compatibility with previous bzr versions (older than 2.2).</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="parent-location">
<h3>parent_location<a class="headerlink" href="#parent-location" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If present, the location of the default branch for pull or merge. This option
is normally set when creating a branch, the first <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pull</span></code> or by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pull</span>
<span class="pre">--remember</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="push-location">
<h3>push_location<a class="headerlink" href="#push-location" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If present, the location of the default branch for push. This option
is normally set by the first <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">push</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">push</span> <span class="pre">--remember</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="push-strict">
<h3>push_strict<a class="headerlink" href="#push-strict" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If present, defines the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--strict</span></code> option default value for checking
uncommitted changes before pushing.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="dpush-strict">
<h3>dpush_strict<a class="headerlink" href="#dpush-strict" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If present, defines the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--strict</span></code> option default value for checking
uncommitted changes before pushing into a different VCS without any
custom bzr metadata.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bound-location">
<h3>bound_location<a class="headerlink" href="#bound-location" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The location that commits should go to when acting as a checkout.
This option is normally set by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bind</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bound">
<h3>bound<a class="headerlink" href="#bound" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If set to “True”, the branch should act as a checkout, and push each commit to
the bound_location. This option is normally set by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bind</span></code>/<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unbind</span></code>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="send-strict">
<h3>send_strict<a class="headerlink" href="#send-strict" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If present, defines the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--strict</span></code> option default value for checking
uncommitted changes before sending a merge directive.</p>
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<div class="section" id="add-maximum-file-size">
<h3>add.maximum_file_size<a class="headerlink" href="#add-maximum-file-size" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Defines the maximum file size the command line “add” operation will allow
in recursive mode, with files larger than this value being skipped. You may
specify this value as an integer (in which case it is interpreted as bytes),
or you may specify the value using SI units, i.e. 10KB, 20MB, 1G. A value of 0
will disable skipping.</p>
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<div class="section" id="external-merge-tools">
<h2>External Merge Tools<a class="headerlink" href="#external-merge-tools" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="bzr-mergetool-name">
<h3>bzr.mergetool.<name><a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-mergetool-name" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Defines an external merge tool called <name> with the given command-line.
Arguments containing spaces should be quoted using single or double quotes. The
executable may omit its path if it can be found on the PATH.</p>
<p>The following markers can be used in the command-line to substitute filenames
involved in the merge conflict:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{</span><span class="n">base</span><span class="p">}</span> <span class="n">file</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">BASE</span>
<span class="p">{</span><span class="n">this</span><span class="p">}</span> <span class="n">file</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">THIS</span>
<span class="p">{</span><span class="n">other</span><span class="p">}</span> <span class="n">file</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">OTHER</span>
<span class="p">{</span><span class="n">result</span><span class="p">}</span> <span class="n">output</span> <span class="n">file</span>
<span class="p">{</span><span class="n">this_temp</span><span class="p">}</span> <span class="n">temp</span> <span class="n">copy</span> <span class="n">of</span> <span class="n">file</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">THIS</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">used</span> <span class="n">to</span> <span class="n">overwrite</span> <span class="n">output</span> <span class="n">file</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">merge</span>
<span class="n">succeeds</span><span class="o">.</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">bzr</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">mergetool</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">kdiff3</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">kdiff3</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="n">base</span><span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="n">this</span><span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="n">other</span><span class="p">}</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="n">o</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="n">result</span><span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>Because <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mergetool</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">config</span></code> itself both use curly braces as
interpolation markers, trying to display the mergetool line results in the
following problem:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ bzr config bzr.mergetool.kdiff3='kdiff3 {base} {this} {other} -o {result}'
$ bzr config bzr.mergetool.kdiff3
bzr: ERROR: Option base is not defined while expanding "kdiff3 {base} {this} {other} -o {result}".
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>To avoid this, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">config</span></code> can be instructed not to try expanding variables:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ bzr config --all bzr.mergetool.kdiff3
branch:
bzr.mergetool.kdiff3 = kdiff3 {base} {this} {other} -o {result}
</pre></div>
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<div class="section" id="bzr-default-mergetool">
<h3>bzr.default_mergetool<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-default-mergetool" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Specifies which external merge tool (as defined above) should be selected by
default in tools such as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">qconflicts</span></code>.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">bzr</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">default_mergetool</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">kdiff3</span>
</pre></div>
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