mercurial/help/config.txt
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Mercurial reads configuration data from several files, if they exist.
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Below we list the most specific file first.
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On Windows, these configuration files are read:
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- ``<repo>\.hg\hgrc``
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- ``%USERPROFILE%\.hgrc``
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- ``%USERPROFILE%\mercurial.ini``
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- ``%HOME%\.hgrc``
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- ``%HOME%\mercurial.ini``
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- ``C:\mercurial\mercurial.ini`` (unless regkey or hgrc.d\ or mercurial.ini found)
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- ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial`` (unless hgrc.d\ or mercurial.ini found)
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- ``<hg.exe-dir>\hgrc.d\*.rc`` (unless mercurial.ini found)
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- ``<hg.exe-dir>\mercurial.ini``
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On Unix, these files are read:
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- ``<repo>/.hg/hgrc``
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- ``$HOME/.hgrc``
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- ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc``
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- ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc``
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- ``<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc``
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- ``<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc``
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If there is a per-repository configuration file which is not owned by
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the active user, Mercurial will warn you that the file is skipped::
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  not trusting file <repo>/.hg/hgrc from untrusted user USER, group GROUP
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If this bothers you, the warning can be silenced (the file would still
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be ignored) or trust can be established. Use one of the following
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settings, the syntax is explained below:
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- ``ui.report_untrusted = False``
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- ``trusted.users = USER``
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- ``trusted.groups = GROUP``
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The configuration files for Mercurial use a simple ini-file format. A
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configuration file consists of sections, led by a ``[section]`` header
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and followed by ``name = value`` entries::
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  [ui]
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  username = Firstname Lastname <firstname.lastname@example.net>
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  verbose = True
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The above entries will be referred to as ``ui.username`` and
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``ui.verbose``, respectively. Please see the hgrc man page for a full
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description of the possible configuration values:
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- on Unix-like systems: ``man hgrc``
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- online: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html