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While most configuration is handled by configuration files, some options
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which may be semi-permanent can also be controlled through the environment.
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Override the email id used by Bazaar. Typical format::
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"John Doe <jdoe@example.com>"
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See also the ``email`` configuration value.
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Override the progress display. Possible values are "none", "dots", "tty"
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Control whether SIGQUIT behaves normally or invokes a breakin debugger.
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* 0 = Standard SIGQUIT behavior (normally, exit with a core dump)
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* 1 = Invoke breakin debugger (default)
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Override the home directory used by Bazaar.
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Select a different SSH implementation.
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Control whether to launch a debugger on error.
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* 0 = Standard behavior
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Path to the Bazaar executable to use when using the bzr+ssh protocol.
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See also the ``bzr_remote_path`` configuration value.
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Path to the editor Bazaar should use for commit messages, etc.
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Location of the Bazaar log file. You can check the current location by
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running ``bzr version``.
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The log file contains debug information that is useful for diagnosing or
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reporting problems with Bazaar.
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Setting this to ``NUL`` on Windows or ``/dev/null`` on other platforms
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The path to the plugins directory that Bazaar should use.
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If not set, Bazaar will search for plugins in:
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* the user specific plugin directory (containing the ``user`` plugins),
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* the bzrlib directory (containing the ``core`` plugins),
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* the site specific plugin directory if applicable (containing
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the ``site`` plugins).
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If ``BZR_PLUGIN_PATH`` is set in any fashion, it will change the
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the way the plugin are searched.
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As for the ``PATH`` variables, if multiple directories are
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specified in ``BZR_PLUGIN_PATH`` they should be separated by the
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platform specific appropriate character (':' on Unix/Linux/etc,
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By default if ``BZR_PLUGIN_PATH`` is set, it replaces searching
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in ``user``. However it will continue to search in ``core`` and
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``site`` unless they are explicitly removed.
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If you need to change the order or remove one of these
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directories, you should use special values:
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* ``-user``, ``-core``, ``-site`` will remove the corresponding
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path from the default values,
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* ``+user``, ``+core``, ``+site`` will add the corresponding path
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before the remaining default values (and also remove it from
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Note that the special values 'user', 'core' and 'site' should be
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used literally, they will be substituted by the corresponding,
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platform specific, values.
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The examples below use ':' as the separator, windows users
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Overriding the default user plugin directory::
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BZR_PLUGIN_PATH='/path/to/my/other/plugins'
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Disabling the site directory while retaining the user directory::
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BZR_PLUGIN_PATH='-site:+user'
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Disabling all plugins (better achieved with --no-plugins)::
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BZR_PLUGIN_PATH='-user:-core:-site'
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Overriding the default site plugin directory::
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BZR_PLUGIN_PATH='/path/to/my/site/plugins:-site':+user
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Under special circumstances (mostly when trying to diagnose a
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bug), it's better to disable a plugin (or several) rather than
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uninstalling them completely. Such plugins can be specified in
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the ``BZR_DISABLE_PLUGINS`` environment variable.
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In that case, ``bzr`` will stop loading the specified plugins and
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will raise an import error if they are explicitly imported (by
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another plugin that depends on them for example).
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Disabling ``myplugin`` and ``yourplugin`` is achieved by::
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BZR_DISABLE_PLUGINS='myplugin:yourplugin'
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When adding a new feature or working on a bug in a plugin,
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developers often need to use a specific version of a given
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plugin. Since python requires that the directory containing the
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code is named like the plugin itself this make it impossible to
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use arbitrary directory names (using a two-level directory scheme
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is inconvenient). ``BZR_PLUGINS_AT`` allows such directories even
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if they don't appear in ``BZR_PLUGIN_PATH`` .
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Plugins specified in this environment variable takes precedence
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over the ones in ``BZR_PLUGIN_PATH``.
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The variable specified a list of ``plugin_name@plugin path``,
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``plugin_name`` being the name of the plugin as it appears in
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python module paths, ``plugin_path`` being the path to the
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directory containing the plugin code itself
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(i.e. ``plugins/myplugin`` not ``plugins``). Use ':' as the list
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separator, use ';' on windows.
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Using a specific version of ``myplugin``:
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``BZR_PLUGINS_AT='myplugin@/home/me/bugfixes/123456-myplugin``
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The path where Bazaar should look for shell plugin external commands.
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Configuration files are located in ``$HOME/.bazaar`` on Linux/Unix and
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``C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Bazaar\2.0`` on
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Windows. (You can check the location for your system by using
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There are three primary configuration files in this location:
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* ``bazaar.conf`` describes default configuration options,
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* ``locations.conf`` describes configuration information for
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specific branch locations,
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* ``authentication.conf`` describes credential information for
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Each branch can also contain a configuration file that sets values specific
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to that branch. This file is found at ``.bzr/branch/branch.conf`` within the
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branch. This file is visible to all users of a branch, if you wish to override
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one of the values for a branch with a setting that is specific to you then you
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can do so in ``locations.conf``.
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Information on how to configure Bazaar.
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Location of configuration file
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Each user gets a pair of configurations files in ``$HOME/.bazaar``. The first
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one, named ``bazaar.conf``, includes default configuration options. The other
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file, ``locations.conf``, contains configuration information for specific
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branch locations. These files are sometimes referred to as ``ini files``.
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An ini file has three types of contructs: section headers, section
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variables and comments.
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A comment is any line that starts with a "#" (sometimes called a "hash
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mark", "pound sign" or "number sign"). Comment lines are ignored by
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Bazaar when parsing ini files.
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A section header is a word enclosed in brackets that starts at the begining
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of a line. A typical section header looks like this::
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The only valid section headers for bazaar.conf currently are [DEFAULT] and
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[ALIASES]. Section headers are case sensitive. The default section provides for
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setting variables which can be overridden with the branch config file.
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The only valid section header for bazaar.conf is [DEFAULT], which is
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case sensitive. The default section provides for setting variables
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which can be overridden with the branch config file.
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For ``locations.conf``, the variables from the section with the
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longest matching section header are used to the exclusion of other
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[http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/*]
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check_signatures = require
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The authentication configuration file, authentication.conf
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``authentication.conf`` allows one to specify credentials for
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remote servers. This can be used for all the supported transports and any part
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of bzr that requires authentication (smtp for example).
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The syntax of the file obeys the same rules as the others except for the
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variable policies which don't apply.
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For more information on the possible uses of the authentication configuration
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file see :doc:`authentication-help`.
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Common variable options
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A comma-separated list of debugging options to turn on. The same values
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can be used as with the -D command-line option (see `help global-options`).
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Common Variable Options
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The email address to use when committing a branch. Typically takes the form
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email = Full Name <account@hostname.tld>
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The path of the editor that you wish to use if *bzr commit* is run without
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a commit message. This setting is trumped by the environment variable
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``BZR_EDITOR``, and overrides the ``VISUAL`` and ``EDITOR`` environment
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The default log format to use. Standard log formats are ``long``, ``short``
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and ``line``. Additional formats may be provided by plugins. The default
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a commit log message. This setting is trumped by the environment variable
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``$BZR_EDITOR``, and overrides ``$VISUAL`` and ``$EDITOR``.
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Defines the behavior for signatures.
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The gnupg signature for revisions must be present and must be valid.
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Do not check gnupg signatures of revisions.
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Do not check gnupg signatures of revisions.
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(default) If gnupg signatures for revisions are present, check them.
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This section only applies to the branch at this directory and not
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gpg_signing_command
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(Default: "gpg"). Which program should be used to sign and check revisions.
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gpg_signing_command = /usr/bin/gnpg
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(Default: "bzr"). The path to the command that should be used to run the smart
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server for bzr. This value may only be specified in locations.conf, because:
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- it's needed before branch.conf is accessible
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- allowing remote branch.conf files to specify commands would be a security
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It is overridden by the BZR_REMOTE_PATH environment variable.
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(Default: "localhost"). SMTP server to use when Bazaar needs to send
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email, eg. with ``merge-directive --mail-to``, or the bzr-email plugin.
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smtp_username, smtp_password
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User and password to authenticate to the SMTP server. If smtp_username
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is set, and smtp_password is not, Bazaar will prompt for a password.
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These settings are only needed if the SMTP server requires authentication
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A mail client to use for sending merge requests.
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By default, bzr will try to use ``mapi`` on Windows. On other platforms, it
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will try ``xdg-email``. If either of these fails, it will fall back to
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Supported values for specific clients:
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:claws: Use Claws. This skips a dialog for attaching files.
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:evolution: Use Evolution.
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:thunderbird: Use Mozilla Thunderbird or Icedove. For Thunderbird/Icedove 1.5,
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this works around some bugs that xdg-email doesn't handle.
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Supported generic values are:
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:editor: Use your editor to compose the merge request. This also uses
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your commit id, (see ``bzr whoami``), smtp_server and (optionally)
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smtp_username and smtp_password.
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:mapi: Use your preferred e-mail client on Windows.
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:xdg-email: Use xdg-email to run your preferred mail program
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The branch you intend to submit your current work to. This is automatically
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set by ``bzr send``, and is also used by the ``submit:`` revision spec. This
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should usually be set on a per-branch or per-location basis.
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A publically-accessible version of this branch (implying that this version is
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not publically-accessible). Used (and set) by ``bzr send``.
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A list of strings, each string represent a warning that can be emitted by
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bzr. Mentioning a warning in this list tells bzr to not emit it.
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* ``format_deprecation``:
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whether the format deprecation warning is shown on repositories that are
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using deprecated formats.
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Branch type specific options
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These options apply only to branches that use the ``dirstate-tags`` or
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are usually set in ``.bzr/branch/branch.conf`` automatically, but may be
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manually set in ``locations.conf`` or ``bazaar.conf``.
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These options apply only to branches that use the "experimental-branch6"
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format. They are usually set in ``.bzr/branch/branch.conf`` automatically, but
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may be manually set in ``locations.conf`` or ``bazaar.conf``.
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append_revisions_only
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If set to "True" then revisions can only be appended to the log, not
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removed. A branch with this setting enabled can only pull from another
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branch if the other branch's log is a longer version of its own. This is
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normally set by ``bzr init --append-revisions-only``. If you set it
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manually, use either 'True' or 'False' (case-sensitive) to maintain
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compatibility with previous bzr versions (older than 2.2).
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removed. A branch with this setting enabled can only pull from
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another branch if the other branch's log is a longer version of its
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own. This is normally set by ``bzr init --append-revisions-only``.
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If present, the location of the default branch for pull or merge.
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This option is normally set by ``pull --remember`` or ``merge
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If present, the location of the default branch for push. This option
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is normally set by ``push --remember``.
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If present, defines the ``--strict`` option default value for checking
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uncommitted changes before pushing.
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If present, defines the ``--strict`` option default value for checking
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uncommitted changes before pushing into a different VCS without any
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The location that commits should go to when acting as a checkout.
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This option is normally set by ``bind``.
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the bound_location. This option is normally set by ``bind``/``unbind``.
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If present, defines the ``--strict`` option default value for checking
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uncommitted changes before sending a merge directive.
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