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authorOwen W. Taylor <otaylor@fishsoup.net>2012-02-05 14:37:38 -0500
committerOwen W. Taylor <otaylor@fishsoup.net>2012-02-05 14:40:22 -0500
commite105b5271909824ba79bf31b6ec6e9600bff1c54 (patch)
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downloadgit-bz-e105b5271909824ba79bf31b6ec6e9600bff1c54.tar.gz
Allow setting bz.default-<field name>
If you want to override something like the default version on a per-component basis, having to set that in the per-tracker configuration is unnatural and confusing. Allow setting bz.default-version instead. This is interpreted as overriding the existing configuration of default field values. Based on a patch from Dan Winship <danw@gnome.org> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651756
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@@ -346,15 +346,37 @@ git config bz.default-component general
Note the absence of --global; configuring a default product and component
globally is seldom useful.
+[[default-field-values]]
+DEFAULT FIELD VALUES
+--------------------
+When filing a bug, git-bz needs to know the default values to use for
+the fields +version+, +op-sys+, +platform+, +assigned-to+ and
++priority+. git-bz has built-in global defaults and specific defaults
+for particular common bug trackers, but if you are using a bug tracker
+that it doesn't know about, you may need to configure appropriate
+field values. Valid values for +priority+ are especially likely to vary
+between different Bugzilla instances.
+
+Also, for +version+, each product has it's own list of versions, and if
+the product owner has deleted the +unspecified+ version that git-bz
+uses as a default, you'll have to set that.
+
+The first place that git-bz checks for default field values is in the
+bugzilla config variable +bz.default-<field-name>+. So, to change the
+default value of version for the current repository, do:
+
+----------------------------------------
+git config bz.default-version 1.0
+----------------------------------------
+
+If no value is set there, then it looks for +default-<field-name>+ in
+the per-tracker configuration. See <<per-tracker-configuration, below>>.
+
+[[per-tracker-configuration]]
PER-TRACKER CONFIGURATION
-------------------------
-git-bz needs some configuration specific to the bugzilla instance (tracker),
-in particular it needs to know initial field values to use when submitting
-bugs; legal values for some fields depend on the instance. Initial field
-values are specified by the config variable +default-<field-name>+.
-
-In addition to initial field values, some other variables can be configured
-per tracker:
+In addition to <<default-field-values, default field values>>, some
+other variables can be configured per tracker:
auth-user:: the user to use for basic HTTP authentication. Since
basic auth sends passwords in clear text, you should not use this unless