Config Extension

This extension is not distributed with Mercurial.

Author: Steve Borho

Repository: http://www.bitbucket.org/sborho/hgconfig/

Requires iniparse to be installed.

To use the dialogs, you must have PyQt4 or PyGtk installed. This extension is considered defunct, use TortoiseHg config dialogs instead. For command line access to configuration, consider HgcfgExtension.

1. Overview

This extension provides an hg config command which can be used to read or write values from your Mercurial configuration files. It also provides a small number of dialog windows for the most common configuration tasks.

2. Configuration

Configure your .hgrc to enable the extension by adding following lines:

[extensions]
hgext.hgconfig =

Note that the hg-config repository comes with an hgconf.rc file which is intended to be copied into a site-wide hgrc.d/ directory. It enables the extension and configures the username hook (below).

3. Username Hook

This extension also provides a hook which can spawn the username dialog when a user tries to make a commit without a valid username. It is enabled by adding the following lines to the site-wide hgrc file.

[hooks]
precommit.username = python:hgconf.uname.hook

After a user triggers the dialog and enters a valid username, the dialog will override the global precommit.username hook by adding the following lines into the same hgrc file the username was stored:

[hooks]
precommit.username =

4. Config Command

When the extension is properly installed, you can easily get the online help.

% hg help config
hg config [<file-option>] [-gibBr] section.name [newvalue]

Apply a change or query a Mercurial configuration file.

       By default changes are applied globally to a user's ~/.hgrc (or
       equivalent) unless the --local flag is given, in which case the
       changes are applied to this repository's $(hg root)/.hg/hgrc
       file.  The configuration file may also be explicitly specified
       via the --file argument.

       Examples:
       hg config --get --local paths.default
       hg config --get --bool diff.git
       hg config --local paths.default ~/clone-parent
       hg config ui.ssh "/path/to/ssh -C"
       hg config --file /etc/mercurial/hgrc extensions.hgext.mq

       To launch one of the provided dialogs:
       hg config [--local] username
       hg config paths          # only operates on local repo
       hg config webconf        # only operates on local repo

       The --get and --file options are by ignored dialog commands.

       Get comamnds return 0 if successful, a boolean 0 or 1 if
       --return-bool was specified, or 2 if an error occurred. The key
       value is returned on stdout and all warnings are piped to stderr.

       Note that 'hg config' is parsing a value from a particular file,
       while Mercurial parses a series of files at startup in order
       to read its configuration (man 5 hgrc).  To see the actual value
       that Mercurial will use, use the 'hg showconfig' command.

       Set commands return 0 if successful, or 1 if a write failure
       occurred

options:

 -g --get             get value for specified key
 -i --int             force retrieved value to be an integer
 -b --bool            force retrieved value to be a 0 or 1
 -B --return-bool     command returns 0 or 1 based on retrieved value
 -l --local           operate on configuration of local repository
 -rm --remove         remove specified key from file
    --remove-section  remove specified section from file
 -f --file            operate on specified config file

use "hg -v help config" to show global options

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