trac-admin should allow editing of "trac.ini"

[sebastian@…]

It would be nice if one was able to edit the trac.ini file with trac-admin. Commands could be look like this:

config set <section> <option> <value>
        -- Set the value for the given option in "trac.ini"

config remove <section> <option>
        -- Remove the specified option from "trac.ini"

This would, of course, only affect the trac.ini of the administrated project (i.e. not a global trac.ini).

[sebastian@…]

I've implemented the feature and attached the patch. This works for me.

[sebastian@…]

Patch for "admin/console.py" against Trac 0.11.1

[ebray]

Looks good to me. I had a patch similar to this a long time ago but never remembered to submit it. Story of my life I guess.

[Remy Blank]

The patch looks good. However, I have two comments:

• Is this functionality really useful? Isn't it easier to edit trac.ini than to enter a trac-admin command? Or in other words, what is the use case that is better served by a command than by direct editing?
• As this adds new functionality, it would only be considered for 0.12.

[sebastian@…]

I need this patch to administrate multiple Trac projects at once. This way I can change project specific settings (like paths or names) using a bash script and don't have to edit all Trac.ini files on my own.

[Christian Boos]

Right, I was writing the following at the same time :-)

I think scripting is the use case here. Doing automated changes using trac-admin set/remove seems more robust then parsing/changing the trac.ini file (if you want to be precise, you have first to locate the section, then the entry, so it can't be done with a trivial sed expression).

[Remy Blank]

Ok, I'm convinced ;-) I'll put this into my pipeline.

[Remy Blank]

Patch applied to trunk in [7557], thanks!

• In addition to config set and config remove, I also added config get to print the value of an option.
• Command completion works for all config commands, for the config section and the option name.
• Added 3 test cases for the config commands.