Deprecated Darkstar fourms

everytime i update my sever after modifying this file it shows up as potenial conflict... Don't know what rev. this changed at, but it didnt use to do this. And until I change it back to original version it will not allow me to update. Is there a way to make this a uncommitted so it's not listed as a potenial conflict some new users may not know how to fix it. I now keep 2 settings.lua files one as a copy for updating purposes...

tortoise svn: right click -> tortoise svn -> unversion and add to ignore list -> settings.lua

But that may cause issues if you're missing any variables that have been added to settings.lua Nothing like player:giveGil(150*0) or *nil because GIL_RATE isn't declared anywhere

I think all configuration files should be named "settings.lua.default", "search.conf.default" in the repo. Then when you download it, you can just rename it and configure without worrying about conflicts.

And add in one more thing that can go wrong in setting up the server.

I use an RSS feed reader named TT-RSS that handles things that way, lautan. Users would screw it up.

They also have trouble figuring out the error message: "cache is not writable. (chmod -R 777 /cache/images)"

Here's a way to handle local settings w/ source control. Works ootb w/o user action, but allows for local changes that source control ignores. It would be nice for .conf files, too.

Source control:
settings.master.lua -- contains what settings.lua is currently
settings.localsample.lua (or settings.mysample.lua, etc.) -- optional, just gives an example usage

Ignored from source control:
settings.local.lua (or settings.my.lua, etc.) -- actual local settings
settings.lua -- merged runtime settings

On game-server start:
Merge settings.master.lua with settings.local.lua (if exists) -> settings.lua
Not sure if this could be in game-master.exe, or require a preloader that does it, then loads game-master.exe