Re: [Monotone-devel] New branch name with no other changes

[Jerome Baum]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 17:13, Stephen Leake
<address@hidden> wrote:
> What would the equivalent path on Windows be? The equivalent of
> ~/.monotone/monotonerc is
>
> c:/Documents and Settings/Stephe Leake/Application Data/monotone/monotonerc
>
> so I guess /etc/monotonerc would be
>
> c:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/monotone/monotonerc
>
> Windows doesn't do symlinks, but 'dofile' is close enough.

Given all these troubles, why not just let the sysadmin handle a
system-wide config file? Alias "mtn" to "mtn --rcfile /etc/monotonerc"
and be done. Gives the user an easy way to ignore the rcfile:
--clear-rcfiles. All of this is already built-in to monotone and I
don't see a reason to add more options ("load system rcfile" vs.
"don't do that"), also compile time ("location of system rcfile"),
when this can be easily achieved w/out changes to monotone.

However, a paragraph or two about doing this might be in order? e.g.
"You can define a shell alias for all users, or write a shell script
and place it before the real mtn binary in PATH. On Windows, use a
batch file."

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