Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH 2/4] Document that quilt loads /etc/quilt.quiltrc

[Jean Delvare]

On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 21:59 +0200, Ondřej Lysoněk wrote:
> quilt loads /etc/quilt.quiltrc if ~/.quiltrc doesn't exist. Document
> it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ondřej Lysoněk <address@hidden>
> ---
>  doc/main.tex   | 3 ++-
>  doc/quilt.1.in | 7 ++++---
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/main.tex b/doc/main.tex
> index 24f863e..363d6f6 100644
> --- a/doc/main.tex
> +++ b/doc/main.tex
> @@ -672,7 +672,8 @@ the series file in this case.
>  \section{Customizing Quilt}
>  
>  Upon startup, quilt evaluates the file \textsf{.quiltrc} in the user's
> -home directory, or the file specified with the \textsf{-{}-quiltrc} option.
> +home directory, \textsf{/etc/quilt.quiltrc} if the former file does not
> +exist, or the file specified with the \textsf{-{}-quiltrc} option.
>  This file is a regular bash script. Default options can be passed to
>  any command by defining a \textsf{QUILT\_\textit{COMMAND}\_ARGS} variable
>  (for example, \textsf{QUILT\_DIFF\_ARGS="-{}-color=auto"} causes the output
> diff --git a/doc/quilt.1.in b/doc/quilt.1.in
> index c0e8b05..3c23043 100644
> --- a/doc/quilt.1.in
> +++ b/doc/quilt.1.in
> @@ -178,9 +178,10 @@ Please refer to the pdf documentation for a full example 
> of use.
>  .SH CONFIGURATION FILE
>  
>  Upon startup, quilt evaluates the file .quiltrc in the user's home
> -directory, or the file specified with the --quiltrc option.  This file
> -is a regular bash script. Default options can be passed to any COMMAND
> -by defining a QUILT_${COMMAND}_ARGS variable.  For example,
> +directory, /etc/quilt.quiltrc if the former file does not exist, or
> +the file specified with the --quiltrc option.  This file is a regular
> +bash script. Default options can be passed to any COMMAND by defining
> +a QUILT_${COMMAND}_ARGS variable.  For example,
>  QUILT_DIFF_ARGS="--color=auto" causes the output of quilt diff to be
>  syntax colored when writing to a terminal.

The support of /etc/quilt.quiltrc was already mentioned in section
COMMON OPTIONS TO ALL COMMANDS of the man page, but I agree it could be
documented in a more visible way.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support