BZR_EMAIL

Override the email id used by Bazaar. Typical format:

"John Doe <[email protected]>"

See also the email configuration value.

BZR_PROGRESS_BAR

Override the progress display. Possible values are “none”, “dots”, “tty”

BZR_SIGQUIT_PDB

Control whether SIGQUIT behaves normally or invokes a breakin debugger.

• 0 = Standard SIGQUIT behavior (normally, exit with a core dump)
• 1 = Invoke breakin debugger (default)

BZR_HOME

Override the home directory used by Bazaar.

BZR_SSH

Select a different SSH implementation.

BZR_PDB

Control whether to launch a debugger on error.

• 0 = Standard behavior
• 1 = Launch debugger

BZR_REMOTE_PATH

Path to the Bazaar executable to use when using the bzr+ssh protocol.

See also the bzr_remote_path configuration value.

BZR_EDITOR

Path to the editor Bazaar should use for commit messages, etc.

BZR_PLUGIN_PATH

The path to the plugins directory that Bazaar should use. If not set, Bazaar will search for plugins in:

• the user specific plugin directory (containing the user plugins),
• the bzrlib directory (containing the core plugins),
• the site specific plugin directory if applicable (containing the site plugins).

If BZR_PLUGIN_PATH is set in any fashion, it will change the the way the plugin are searched.

As for the PATH variables, if multiple directories are specified in BZR_PLUGIN_PATH they should be separated by the platform specific appropriate character (‘:’ on Unix/Linux/etc, ‘;’ on windows)

By default if BZR_PLUGIN_PATH is set, it replaces searching in user. However it will continue to search in core and site unless they are explicitly removed.

If you need to change the order or remove one of these directories, you should use special values:

• -user, -core, -site will remove the corresponding path from the default values,
• +user, +core, +site will add the corresponding path before the remaining default values (and also remove it from the default values).

Note that the special values ‘user’, ‘core’ and ‘site’ should be used literally, they will be substituted by the corresponding, platform specific, values.

The examples below use ‘:’ as the separator, windows users should use ‘;’.

Overriding the default user plugin directory:

BZR_PLUGIN_PATH='/path/to/my/other/plugins'

Disabling the site directory while retaining the user directory:

BZR_PLUGIN_PATH='-site:+user'

Disabling all plugins (better achieved with –no-plugins):

BZR_PLUGIN_PATH='-user:-core:-site'

Overriding the default site plugin directory:

BZR_PLUGIN_PATH='/path/to/my/site/plugins:-site':+user

BZR_DISABLE_PLUGINS

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 BZR_DISABLE_PLUGINS environment variable.

In that case, bzr 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).

Disabling myplugin and yourplugin is achieved by:

BZR_DISABLE_PLUGINS='myplugin:yourplugin'

BZR_PLUGINS_AT

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). BZR_PLUGINS_AT allows such directories even if they don’t appear in BZR_PLUGIN_PATH .

Plugins specified in this environment variable takes precedence over the ones in BZR_PLUGIN_PATH.

The variable specified a list of plugin_name@plugin path, plugin_name being the name of the plugin as it appears in python module paths, plugin_path being the path to the directory containing the plugin code itself (i.e. plugins/myplugin not plugins). Use ‘:’ as the list separator, use ‘;’ on windows.

Example:

Using a specific version of myplugin: BZR_PLUGINS_AT='myplugin@/home/me/bugfixes/123456-myplugin

BZRPATH

The path where Bazaar should look for shell plugin external commands.

Location

Configuration files are located in $HOME/.bazaar on Linux/Unix and C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Bazaar\2.0 on Windows. (You can check the location for your system by using bzr version.)

There are three primary configuration files in this location:

• bazaar.conf describes default configuration options,
• locations.conf describes configuration information for specific branch locations,
• authentication.conf describes credential information for remote servers.

Each branch can also contain a configuration file that sets values specific to that branch. This file is found at .bzr/branch/branch.conf 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 locations.conf.

General format

An ini file has three types of contructs: section headers, section variables and comments.

[DEFAULT]

[http://mybranches.isp.com/~jdoe/branchdir]
[/home/jdoe/branches/]

email            = John Doe <[email protected]>
check_signatures = require

[/top/location]
push_location = sftp://example.com/location
push_location:policy = appendpath

The main configuration file, bazaar.conf

bazaar.conf allows two sections: [DEFAULT] and [ALIASES]. The default section contains the default configuration options for all branches. The default section can be overriden by providing a branch-specific section in locations.conf.

A typical bazaar.conf section often looks like the following:

[DEFAULT]
email             = John Doe <[email protected]>
editor            = /usr/bin/vim
check_signatures  = check-available
create_signatures = when-required

The branch location configuration file, locations.conf

locations.conf 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:

[/home/jdoe/branches/nethack]
email = Nethack Admin <[email protected]>

[http://hypothetical.site.com/branches/devel-branch]
create_signatures = always
check_signatures  = always

[http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/*]
check_signatures  = require

The authentication configuration file, authentication.conf

authentication.conf 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).

The syntax of the file obeys the same rules as the others except for the variable policies which don’t apply.

For more information on the possible uses of the authentication configuration file see Authentication Settings.

debug_flags

A comma-separated list of debugging options to turn on. The same values can be used as with the -D command-line option (see help global-options). For example:

debug_flags = hpss

email

The email address to use when committing a branch. Typically takes the form of:

email = Full Name <[email protected]>

editor

The path of the editor that you wish to use if bzr commit is run without a commit message. This setting is trumped by the environment variable BZR_EDITOR, and overrides the VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables.

log_format

The default log format to use. Standard log formats are long, short and line. Additional formats may be provided by plugins. The default value is long.

check_signatures

Defines the behavior for signatures.

require

The gnupg signature for revisions must be present and must be valid.

ignore

Do not check gnupg signatures of revisions.

check-available

(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.

create_signatures

Defines the behaviour of signing revisions.

always

Sign every new revision that is committed.

when-required

(default) Sign newly committed revisions only when the branch requires signed revisions.

never

Refuse to sign newly committed revisions, even if the branch requires signatures.

recurse

Only useful in locations.conf. Defines whether or not the configuration for this section applies to subdirectories:

true

(default) This section applies to subdirectories as well.

false

This section only applies to the branch at this directory and not branches below it.

gpg_signing_command

(Default: “gpg”). Which program should be used to sign and check revisions. For example:

gpg_signing_command = /usr/bin/gnpg

bzr_remote_path

(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:

• it’s needed before branch.conf is accessible
• allowing remote branch.conf files to specify commands would be a security risk

It is overridden by the BZR_REMOTE_PATH environment variable.

smtp_server

(Default: “localhost”). SMTP server to use when Bazaar needs to send email, eg. with merge-directive --mail-to, or the bzr-email plugin.

smtp_username, smtp_password

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.

mail_client

A mail client to use for sending merge requests. By default, bzr will try to use mapi on Windows. On other platforms, it will try xdg-email. If either of these fails, it will fall back to editor.

Supported values for specific clients:

Supported generic values are:

submit_branch

The branch you intend to submit your current work to. This is automatically set by bzr send, and is also used by the submit: revision spec. This should usually be set on a per-branch or per-location basis.

public_branch

A publically-accessible version of this branch (implying that this version is not publically-accessible). Used (and set) by bzr send.

suppress_warnings

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.

Valid values:

• format_deprecation:

  whether the format deprecation warning is shown on repositories that are using deprecated formats.

append_revisions_only

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 bzr init --append-revisions-only.

parent_location

If present, the location of the default branch for pull or merge. This option is normally set by pull --remember or merge --remember.

push_location

If present, the location of the default branch for push. This option is normally set by push --remember.

push_strict

If present, defines the --strict option default value for checking uncommitted changes before pushing.

dpush_strict

If present, defines the --strict option default value for checking uncommitted changes before pushing into a different VCS without any custom bzr metadata.

bound_location

The location that commits should go to when acting as a checkout. This option is normally set by bind.

bound

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 bind/unbind.

send_strict

If present, defines the --strict option default value for checking uncommitted changes before sending a merge directive.