[06:06] <gtristan> Any idea how to get around this error "ERROR: Unable to determine your name." without invoking `bzr whoami` and contaminating the user's preferences/configuration ?
[06:07] <gtristan> It seems that BZR_EMAIL environment variable doesnt achieve this :-S
[06:12] <gtristan> verified that this is not an instance of https://bugs.launchpad.net/brz/+bug/1869178 (spelling error BRZ_EMAIL) - this seems particular to fedora 32, though :-S
[06:26] <gtristan> I see, I'm dealing with this other thing called "breezy"
[06:27] <gtristan> Which also seems to use BRZ_EMAIL but that doesn't appear to fix anything
[06:34] <gtristan> oh scratch that, I was feeding in the env vars to the command invocation incorrectly it seems, fixed
[06:34] <pabs3> I'm trying to figure out how to do a merge, while preserving the commits from the contributor's branch, rather than having me as the committer/author
[06:34] <pabs3> bzr merge+commit doesn't do that 
[06:36] <gtristan> oh no it didn't, I had a breezy.conf while testing, still borked
[06:37] <gtristan> (Unfortunately I can't really help regarding the right merge command, I'm only marginally using bzr in a plugin for a build orchestration tool :-S)
[06:39]  * pabs3 wishes git-remote-bzr was working
[06:41] <gtristan> eek this really seems broken :-S
[06:42] <gtristan> Even if I create ~/TEST/.bazaar/bazaar.conf and ~/TEST/.bazaar/breezy.conf giving a stand-in email configuration, `BZR_HOME="${HOME}/TEST" bzr whoami` still bails
[06:43] <gtristan> (with, or without the .bazaar/ subdir present, same result)
[06:45] <gtristan> I can work around this with `HOME="${HOME}/TEST" bzr whoami`, that's pretty dirty but should essentially work
[06:59] <pabs3> aha, I wanted bzr merge --pull
[07:29] <gtristan> Ok I solved my confusion
[07:30] <gtristan> The BZR_EMAIL / BRZ_EMAIL indeed *do* work as I expected them to, however they are only required (logically) at *write* time (when generating commits)
[07:31] <gtristan> I was observing problems in my test cases, and focusing on the plugin code which clones/checks out from bzr, but this part does not require the email...
[07:31] <gtristan> The test scaffolding setting up the test repo however was only using BZR_EMAIL and not BRZ_EMAIL for breezy
[07:31] <gtristan> Solved :)