5 Config file format and location
6 ===============================
8 Most of the information that BE needs lives in the bug repository
9 itself, but there is user-specific information that does not fit into
10 a shared repository. This per-user configuration information is
11 stored in an `INI-style config file`__::
14 user = 'John Doe <jdoe@example.com>'
18 The config file is located at ``~/.config/bugs-everywhere`` by
19 default, but you can override the path by setting environment
20 variables (see :py:func:`~libbe.storage.util.config.path` for
26 Currently the only information stored in the configuration file is a
27 user ID (see :py:func:`~libbe.ui.util.user.get_user_id`), as shown in
28 the example above. However, many version control systems allow you to
29 specify your name and email address, and BE will fall back to the
30 VCS-configured values, so you probably don't need to set a BE-specific
34 .. _configparser: http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html