Merge .bowerrc with global bower

[sebakerckhof]

Hello,

I'm working with a team on a couple of repositories.
Some of these repositories have their bower components installed in a directory named, others in the default bower_components. This is specified in the bowerrc file in each repository

The problem is that some of our team are working behind a proxy and others are not working behind a proxy. This also needs to be defined in the .bowerrc file. Therefore the .bowerrc file is different between team members.

Now, I could not add the bowerrc file to git, but then every member needs to know the correct setting for the "directory" setting (and some others, like "scripts", which is also custom for each repository).

Ideally I would only specify "directory" and "scripts" in the repositories .bowerrc file and bower would merge this with my global .bowerrc file, where I specify my proxy settings.

[sheerun]

You can place .bowerrc in project's directory. Does it solve this problem?

[sebakerckhof]

Well, I have a directory structure like so:

├──  repository/
│   └──  .bowerrc
└──  .bowerrc

The bowerrc file in the repository directory contains:

{
  "directory":"app/lib"
}

And the .bowerrc file in the root directory contains:

{
  "proxy":"http://192.168.12.102:3128",
  "https-proxy":"http://192.168.12.102:3128"
}

According to the bower docs, these two should be merged by bower, therefore the total configuration used by bower should be:

{
  "directory":"app/lib",
  "proxy":"http://192.168.12.102:3128",
  "https-proxy":"http://192.168.12.102:3128"
}

Yet, bower doesn't seem to do this. It doesn't use the proxy settings defined in the .bowerrc in the root directory. Only when I update the .bowerrc in the repository directory manually to include the proxy settings does it work...

I use windows 7 pro x64, bower 1.3.12 and nodejs 0.10.35

[sheerun]

I can confirm. Only first .bowerrc is used. A fixing PR with tests for https://github.com/bower/config/blob/master/lib/util/rc.js#L31 would be appreciated.

[samccone]

Leaning on the giants here, .gitignore works in a similar fashion as to what was proposed here. so 👍

[kodypeterson]

@sheerun I can take a look at this!

[sheerun]

OK :)

[kodypeterson]

@sheerun the fix PR is here https://github.com/bower/config/pull/24

Also, this repo never had tests 😮 Now it does 😄

Still needs more tests, but this is a good start!