bk config-etc(7.3ce)        BitKeeper User's Manual       bk config-etc(7.3ce)

NAME
       bk config-etc - configuring BitKeeper

DESCRIPTION
       BitKeeper  config  files  contain  repository configuration information
       including project description, licensing information, user preferences,
       BK/Web  preferences, and contact information.  Config file entries take
       the form of key-value pairs.  This page describes the various  configu-
       ration keys and their possible values.

       Each BitKeeper repository must have some minimum configuration informa-
       tion available in order to properly execute BitKeeper commands.  Repos-
       itory  configuration  information  is  searched  for  in  the following
       places, in order:

       `bk root`/BitKeeper/etc/config     This repository's config file
       `bk root -P`/BitKeeper/etc/config  Product repository config file
       `bk dotbk`/config                  Personal config file
       /etc/BitKeeper/etc/config          Per-machine config file
       `bk bin`/config                    Per-installation config file
       `bk root`/BitKeeper/log/config     This repository's config file
       `bk root -P`/BitKeeper/log/config  Product repository config file
       $BK_CONFIG                         Environment variable

       The BitKeeper/log/config file[s] are not  version  controlled  but  the
       BitKeeper/etc/config  file[s]  are.  Having two gives you a way to have
       repository specific values that do not propagate.

       For detailed information about how all the search order  works,  or  to

CONFIG FILE ENTRIES
   AUTOFIX
       The  bk  check command can automatically fix a number of problems found
       in a repository.  The default is that this variable is on in newly cre-
       ated  repositories, and that the variable will be passed through as the
       "-f" option to bk check.  To enable or disable autofix, one of the fol-
       lowing should be in your configuration:

           autofix:yes
           autofix:no

   AUTOPOPULATE
       Cause  all  (nested)  pull operations to use the --auto-populate option
       (thus bringing in missing components as needed).  Default is no.

           auto_populate:yes
           auto_populate:no

   BAM SIZE
       The optional BAM variable controls how large a binary needs to be to be
       stored in BAM.  The size is compared to the size of the initial checkin
       only.  Example values the variable may hold are:

           BAM: on
           BAM: off
           BAM: 1K
           BAM: 64K

       A "K" suffix means multiply by 1024, a "M"  suffix  means  multiply  by
       1024^2.  The default size, if not specified, is 64K.

   BK/WEB PREFERENCES
       BK/Web preferences can be specified your configuration.  If these pref-
       erences are specified, information given will appear on the BK/Web site
       for the project.

       bkweb    specify the BK/Web address for a project
       homepage the home page for your project or company
       master   the location from which source can be cloned

       For example,

           bkweb:    http://mysql.bkbits.net:8080/mysql-5.0
           master:   bk://mysql.bkbits.net/mysql-5.0
           homepage: http://www.mysql.com

   CHECKOUT MODE
       Specify  checkout  mode  for  a  repository.   If unset, the default is
       "none".  To change the default, add or change the following line  to/in
       your configuration:

           checkout:<option>

       where option is one of:

       get  Automatically  do  a  bk get <file> after doing a bk delta <file>.
            (Checkout in read-only mode.)
       edit Automatically do a bk edit <file> after doing a bk  delta  <file>.
            Note: This will also adjust the modification time of the s.file to
            be two seconds before the modification time of the gfile, which is
            needed  in  order to prevent make(1) from attempting to re-get the
            file.  (Checkout in edit mode.)
       last Preserve the previous state of <file>.  This is like checkout:none
            for a clone.  If the file was later locked and then checked in, it
            will be checked out again with a lock.
       none Clear the gfile after doing a  bk  delta  <file>.   (This  is  the
            default.)

       For those repositories with BAM data, there is a checkout mode specifi-
       cally for BAM files:

           BAM_checkout:option

       where option is as above.

       The BitKeeper support team recommends "BAM_checkout:last".

   CLOCK SKEW
       When BitKeeper is looking for modified files, file time stamps  can  be
       compared  to a per-repo database to determine when files are unmodified
       leading to a substantial performance improvement  in  larger  reposito-
       ries.   The  "clock_skew"  parameter  controls  how  old a file must be
       before file time stamps are to be trusted.  A certain amount  of  clock
       skew  is  strongly  advised  since  the use of network file systems can
       cause the time stamps to be incorrect.  The  time  is  in  seconds  and
       defaults to 604800 (one week).

           clock_skew: on          # use system defaults
           clock_skew: 86400       # one day
           clock_skew: off         # disable trusting of time stamps

   CLONE DEFAULT
       When  cloning  a  nested collection, if the -s option is not used, then
       the  "clone_default"  option  specifies  the  default  set  of   compo-
       nents/aliases  to  clone.   If "clone_default" is not set then "ALL" is
       implied.

           clone_default: THERE    # always match remote repository
           clone_default: PRODUCT  # only the product, no components
           clone_default: ALL      # all components cloned by default
           clone_default: MYALIAS  # clone MYALIAS by default

   COMPRESSION
       By default, when you setup a repository in compatibility mode, the com-
       pression  algorithm  will  be set to gzip in your configuration as fol-
       lows:

           compression:gzip

       This results in the compression of stored s.files.  To make the reposi-
       tory  use  no  compression by default, change the compression line your
       configuration to be:

           compression:none

       pression.

   DESCRIPTION
       The  config file must contain a one line description of the contents of
       the repository.

           description: cross-platform C-like GUI programming language

   KEYWORD EXPANSION
       Keyword expansion is turned OFF by default.  To have keyword  expansion
       flags  applied  to  a  file automatically upon checkin, add the keyword
       preference to your configuration.

       Keyword preference options are:

       sccs           expand SCCS keywords (%keyword%).
       expand1        expand keywords in the first line that contains keywords
                      only (avoids printf conflicts).
       rcs            expand rcs keywords ($keyword$)

       For example, having

           keyword: sccs, expand1

       in  the  config  file  will expand SCCS keywords only in the first line
       encountered that contains sccs keywords.   Note:  Setting  this  option
       affects only files created subsequently.

   LINE TERMINATION
       The UNIX and Windows operating systems use different characters to rep-
       resent line terminations (eoln).  BitKeeper, by default, sets the  eoln
       preference  to  native when an sfile is created.  This means that files
       checked out on Windows will have the Windows eoln and files checked out
       on UNIX will have the UNIX eoln.

       When  a  file is created, the line termination is taken from the "eoln"
       configuration variable.  It is a per-file flag that may  be  overridden
       with the bk admin command.

       Line-termination preference options are:

       native  Set  line  termination  to the native sequence for the platform
               ("\n" on UNIX and Linux; "\r\n"  on  Windows).   (This  is  the
               default.)
       unix    Force line termination to the UNIX standard ("\n").
       windows Force line termination to the Windows standard ("\r\n").

       To  force  the UNIX eoln mode on all platforms, your configuration must
       have this:

           eoln:unix

       To force Windows line termination use:

           eoln:windows

       In general, the default of native line terminations is the right answer
       and  for exceptions the bk admin command may be used to set this option
       on a per file basis.

   PARALLEL
       By default, BitKeeper runs some processes in parallel to  gain  perfor-
       mance.   The defaults are 8 way parallel for NFS and 3 way parallel for
       local file systems.  You may override the defaults for all  cases  like
       so:

           parallel:12

       Setting the value to 0 will disable parallelism.

   PARTIAL CHECK
       BitKeeper  may  be  configured  to do a full repository integrity check
       after each update.  The integrity check validates  both  internal  Bit-
       Keeper  metadata  and  file  checksums.  The integrity checks have been
       shown to catch hardware problems such as bad  memory  chips,  bad  disk
       drives,  and software problems such as NFS inserting blocks of nulls in
       the middle of files.  Unless you have a larger  repository  (more  than
       5,000  files  and/or  more than 100MB) then you may want to enable full
       checks all the time.

       By default, BitKeeper will run in partial_check  mode,  which  means  a
       full  check  is  performed  no more than once per week and only partial
       checks are performed when the repository is updated.

       You may control the frequency of the full  checks  with  the  following
       variable, units are in days.  To force a full check every two days:

           check_frequency: 2

       The  following  will disable the partial_check mode and force BitKeeper
       to perform full integrity checks on every update (safest but at a  per-
       formance cost):

           partial_check: off

   PULL STATISTICS
       It  is  possible  to  make pull print statistics in a format compatible
       with diffstats by adding this to your configuration:

           stats_after_pull: on

       Note that gathering the statistics needs another pass over the data  so
       if  you  are  very  performance  sensitive, you might want to keep this
       option off.

   SYNC
       In some environments it may be safer to have BitKeeper do  an  fsync(2)
       after  each  update of a history file.  Some Linux file systems perform
       poorly because fsync(2) is implemented as a system wide sync(2).

       The default is not to flush but the default may be overridden with:

           sync:on

   TRIGGER PATHS
       By default, triggers are  stored  in  the  repository  under  the  Bit-
       Keeper/triggers/ directory and this is the only directory searched when
       looking for triggers.  More than one triggers directory may be used  by
       setting  the  triggers variable.  The format is one or more paths sepa-
       rated by a vertical bar, each path has "BitKeeper/triggers" appended to
       it and the resulting path is scanned for triggers.  For example, if you
       wanted to run triggers from /etc/BitKeeper/triggers and from the repos-
       itories'  BitKeeper/triggers,  set the variable as follows in your con-
       figuration:

           triggers: /etc|.

       The directories are processed in the order found in the variable.

       There are several special values which are interpreted:

       .   This is the default, it means  `bk  -R  pwd`/BitKeeper/triggers  is
           scanned for triggers.

       $BK_DOTBK
           If present, `bk dotbk`/BitKeeper/triggers is scanned for triggers.

       $BK_BIN
           If present, `bk bin`/BitKeeper/triggers is scanned for triggers.

       $NONE
           If present, with no other values, then no triggers are processed.

       $PRODUCT
           If present, `bk -P pwd`/BitKeeper/triggers is scanned for triggers.
           This only applies when in a component repository of a  nested  col-
           lection.   It is a way to run product level triggers in each compo-
           nent.

       $SOMETHING_ELSE
           All other paths starting with "$" are ignored,  that  character  is
           reserved.

   UPGRADE URL
       The  upgrade command normally looks for new versions of BitKeeper here:
       http://upgrades.bitkeeper.com/upgrades/ but that location may be  over-
       ridden by setting the upgrade_url field to an different URL.

       For example,

           upgrade_url:   http://www.example.com/bk-release/

       The  contents  of that directory will need to be manually mirrored from
       BitKeeper Inc.

   USER PREFERENCES
       Repository preferences can be defined in your configuration:  The  gen-
       eral format for the repository preference config file is

           [filter]preference:option

       The optional filter can be any of the following:

       no filter      preference:option
       empty filter   []preference:option
       per user       [jdoe]preference:option
       per host       [@xyz.com]preference:option
       per pathname   [:/path/to/repo]preference:option
       per user@host  [jdoe@xyz.com]preference:option
       per repository [:/path/to/repo]preference:option
                      [@xyz.com:/path/to/repo]preference:option
                      [jdoe@xyz.com:/path/to/repo]preference:option

       Preferences  can  be listed multiple times with different filters.  The
       filters are examined in order and the first line that matches the  cur-
       rent user, host, and pathname is used.  So in general the most restric-
       tive directives should appear first.

SEE ALSO
       bk admin
       bk config-gui
       bk config
       bk setup
       bk upgrade

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