'borg config' command

[twilligon]

Similar to git config, it would be nice to have a convenience borg config command that just opens the repo config and changes an option accordingly.

[twilligon]

It looks like it would be super simple to implement (for local repositories): just Repository.save_key followed by save_config. I'm not sure whether this should go under borg debug or not...

[ThomasWaldmann]

I am somehow a bit undecided what to think about this.

OTOH, it's nice to have a frontend here, so one does not need an editor. Using an editor isn't that complicated, though (locating the configs for the first time is non-trivial, though).

OTOH, you still need an editor due to security for remote repos (or run borg config on the server?).

[twilligon]

I was thinking to run e.g. ssh user@host borg config /path/to/repo key value to reconfigure on the server because some clients may only be allowed to use borg serve. If the user is allowed to run other commands, they could just run ssh directly like above. The repo config is not encrypted even with an encrypted repo, so it would still work.

[ThomasWaldmann]

Hmm, when using ssh user@host borg config /path/to/repo key value there is some risk that this causes permission issues, if user is not the usual borgbackup user.

[ThomasWaldmann]

btw, i am working on adding validation for the keys/values used with borg config.

when looking at the keys one might want to set with new values, I failed to find anything that a user could want to set for the cache configuration. @milkey-mouse do you see any use case?

See #3581.

If we fail to find any use case for modifying the cache config, there are 2 ways to deal with this:

• raise for any key now (if we think there could be use cases in future)
• remove the borg config --cache option / related code and only keep the repo related stuff

Hmm, maybe we need to look at "get" also, not just at set/delete.