Telling Bazaar about yourself

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 whoami command to set the identifier you want:

% bzr whoami "Your Name <[email protected]>"

If whoami is used without an argument, the current value is displayed.

Configuration files

Configuration files are located in $HOME/.bazaar on Linux/Unix and C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Bazaar\2.0 on Windows. 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.

Here is sample content of bazaar.conf after setting an email address using the whoami command:

[DEFAULT]
email = Your Name <[email protected]>

For further details on the syntax and configuration settings supported, see Configuration Settings in the Bazaar User Reference.

Rule-based preferences

Some commands and plugins provide custom processing on files matching certain patterns. Per-user rule-based preferences are defined in BZR_HOME/rules.

For further information on how rules are searched and the detailed syntax of the relevant files, see Rules in the Bazaar User Reference.