Combining branches.conf sections

[James Blackwell]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:20:59AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 14:48 +0100, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > yesterday I set up the email plugin to send commit mail to a mailing
> > list for all branches in one dir, which worked and was great.
> > 
> >   [/home/larstiq/src/project/*]
> >   post_commit = bzrlib.plugins.email.post_commit
> >   post_commit_to = bzr-list at somehost
> > 
> > However, after pushing one of those branches, mail stopped going out for
> > that one. The added section in ~/.bazaar/branches.conf:
> > 
> >   [/home/larstiq/src/project/specific-branch]
> >   push_location = sftp://host/path
> > 
> > So how to do this? Duplicating the post_commit stuff for each and every
> > branch feels dirty, and I can't set under [DEFAULT] in bazaar.conf,
> > because this is correct for one project only.
> > 

> Thats possible. I think there are two other routes though:
> bzr push could copy the settings from the prior section
> we could make inheritance optional.
> 
> I'm really ambivalent, this is a UI area where I'm not sure what the
> right thing is..

I think the usual answer is to find all matches and apply the longest
match. Discard shorter matches.

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