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| title: Sharing your rc files |
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| You can customize the options Bazel runs with in your `~/.bazelrc`, but |
| that doesn't scale when you share your workspace with others. |
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| For instance, you could de-activate [Error Prone](http://errorprone.info)'s |
| [DepAnn](http://errorprone.info/bugpattern/DepAnn) checks by adding the |
| `--javacopts="-Xep:DepAnn:OFF"` flag in your `~/.bazelrc`. However, `~/.bazelrc` |
| is not really convenient as it a user file, not shared with |
| your team. You could instead add a rc file at `tools/bazel.rc` in your workspace |
| with the content of the bazelrc file you want to share with your team: |
| |
| ``` |
| build --javacopts="-Xep:DepAnn:OFF" |
| ``` |
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| This file, called a master rc file, is parsed before the user rc file. There is |
| three paths to master rc files that are read in the following order: |
| |
| 1. `tools/bazel.rc` (depot master rc file), |
| 2. `/path/to/bazel.bazelrc` (alongside bazel rc file), and |
| 3. `/etc/bazel.bazelrc` (system-wide bazel rc file). |
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| The complete documentation on rc file is [here](http://bazel.io/docs/bazel-user-manual.html#bazelrc). |
