[Monotone-devel] Re: Why does pull require -k?

[Boris]

Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 11:49 -0800, Justin Patrin wrote:
>> On 12/14/06, Boris <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> After synchronizing my monotone database with another I can use
>>> 'mtn sync' and 'mtn push' just like that (as monotone remembers
>>> everything from the first sync). However 'mtn pull' tells me it
>>> does an anonymous pull. I have to use -k to specify which key I
>>> want to use. Is this is a bug? I wonder as I don't find anything in
>>> the documentation that I need to use -k for pull all the time while
>>> sync and push remember?
>>>
>>
>> It's probably an oversight as monotone is an open source project and
>> is probably thought of in those terms. Open source projects generally
>> allow anonymous pulls and therefore it wouldn't be a problem to not
>> include the key.
>>
>> But yes, sounds like a bug. ;-)
>
> There's also that the server will refuse the connection if you try to
> identify yourself with a key that it doesn't have. If we want to
> change pull to default to using a key, the server would first have to
> be made to fall back to seeing it as an anonymous connection.

Okay, makes sense to me. But is there a way to set a default key (for 
example with one of the variables)?

Boris