Re: Bazaar and CIA

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:01:14PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> If you commit to a Bazaar branch, please enable CIA so that we receive
> notifications via IRC.  It's very simple; in your local branch / checkout:
> 
>   echo "cia_project = GNU GRUB" >> .bzr/branch/branch.conf
> 
> then install the bzr/cia plugin.  In Debian it is provided by `cia-clients'
> package and installed to /usr/share/pyshared/bzrlib/plugins/cia/.

Slightly neater, if you've already installed the cia plugin:

  bzr cia-project 'GNU GRUB'
  bzr nick branch-name # if the directory name is not meaningful enough

You may also wish to have something like this in the [DEFAULT] section
of ~/.bazaar/bazaar.conf:

  cia_user = your-cia-user-name
  cia_send_revno = true

Setting cia_user lets you set a particular username on the cia.vc web
site; this may be useful if you also commit to other projects and like
being able to see statistics on all of them in one place.

cia_send_revno is sort of a project preference I suppose, but I prefer
it myself as I don't find the full revision ids particularly memorable
or useful most of the time, at least not in IRC notifications. It means
that rather than things like this:

  <CIA-36> GNU GRUB: Robert Millan <rmh.grub@aybabtu.com> * rrmh.grub@aybabtu.com-20091024205823-fv80obkubaqsi9vi test/test: test commit 2

... you get "r764" or similar.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]