Comment 10 for bug 616878

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 616878] Re: bzr commit error because of no identity

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James Troup wrote:
> John A Meinel <email address hidden> writes:
>
>> I think downgrading it to a warning would be ok. I've noticed other
>> systems do the same thing.
>>
>> That said, if you are upgrading 400 machines to a newer version of bzr,
>> can't that same mechanism be used to call 'bzr whoami' one time on each
>> of those machines?
>
> Sure except that we run bzr as many different users. And yes, we could
> in theory, force a 'bzr whoami' run for all of those users across 400
> machines.
>
> Or, you know, we could just give up and switch to some other VCS system
> which doesn't annoy us so much because I really don't want to do that
> :-P
>
> (A per branch/checkout/whatever way to disable this error would be
> sufficient to downgrade this from a blocker on us upgrading to a simple
> annoyance.)
>

bzr whoami --branch

Is a per-branch way to disable this error...

John
=:->

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