| author | Martin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net> |
| Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:12:50 +0100 | |
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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`` |
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- ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial`` |
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- ``<install-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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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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This 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 |