HG

    Path to the 'hg' executable, automatically passed when running

    hooks, extensions or external tools. If unset or empty, this is

    the hg executable's name if it's frozen, or an executable named

    'hg' (with %PATHEXT% [defaulting to COM/EXE/BAT/CMD] extensions on

    Windows) is searched.

HGEDITOR

    This is the name of the editor to run when committing. See EDITOR.

    (deprecated, use .hgrc)

HGENCODING

    This overrides the default locale setting detected by Mercurial.

    This setting is used to convert data including usernames,

    changeset descriptions, tag names, and branches. This setting can

    be overridden with the --encoding command-line option.

HGENCODINGMODE

    This sets Mercurial's behavior for handling unknown characters

    while transcoding user input. The default is "strict", which

    causes Mercurial to abort if it can't map a character. Other

    settings include "replace", which replaces unknown characters, and

    "ignore", which drops them. This setting can be overridden with

    the --encodingmode command-line option.

HGMERGE

    An executable to use for resolving merge conflicts. The program

    will be executed with three arguments: local file, remote file,

    ancestor file.

    (deprecated, use .hgrc)

HGRCPATH

    A list of files or directories to search for hgrc files. Item

    separator is ":" on Unix, ";" on Windows. If HGRCPATH is not set,

    platform default search path is used. If empty, only the .hg/hgrc

    from the current repository is read.

    For each element in HGRCPATH:

    - if it's a directory, all files ending with .rc are added

    - otherwise, the file itself will be added

HGUSER

    This is the string used as the author of a commit. If not set,

    available values will be considered in this order:

    - HGUSER (deprecated)

    - hgrc files from the HGRCPATH

    - EMAIL

    - interactive prompt

    - LOGNAME (with ``@hostname`` appended)

    (deprecated, use .hgrc)

EMAIL

    May be used as the author of a commit; see HGUSER.

LOGNAME

    May be used as the author of a commit; see HGUSER.

VISUAL

    This is the name of the editor to use when committing. See EDITOR.

EDITOR

    Sometimes Mercurial needs to open a text file in an editor for a

    user to modify, for example when writing commit messages. The

    editor it uses is determined by looking at the environment

    variables HGEDITOR, VISUAL and EDITOR, in that order. The first

    non-empty one is chosen. If all of them are empty, the editor

    defaults to 'vi'.

PYTHONPATH

    This is used by Python to find imported modules and may need to be

    set appropriately if this Mercurial is not installed system-wide.