hide outer repo $ hg init Use hgrc within $TESTTMP $ HGRCPATH=`pwd`/hgrc $ export HGRCPATH Use an alternate var for scribbling on hgrc to keep check-code from complaining about the important settings we may be overwriting: $ HGRC=`pwd`/hgrc $ export HGRC Basic syntax error $ echo "invalid" > $HGRC $ hg version hg: parse error at $TESTTMP/hgrc:1: invalid [255] $ echo "" > $HGRC Issue1199: Can't use '%' in hgrc (eg url encoded username) $ hg init "foo%bar" $ hg clone "foo%bar" foobar updating to branch default 0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ cd foobar $ cat .hg/hgrc [paths] default = $TESTTMP/foo%bar (glob) $ hg paths default = $TESTTMP/foo%bar (glob) $ hg showconfig bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP/foobar (glob) paths.default=$TESTTMP/foo%bar (glob) $ cd .. issue1829: wrong indentation $ echo '[foo]' > $HGRC $ echo ' x = y' >> $HGRC $ hg version hg: parse error at $TESTTMP/hgrc:2: x = y [255] $ python -c "print '[foo]\nbar = a\n b\n c \n de\n fg \nbaz = bif cb \n'" \ > > $HGRC $ hg showconfig foo foo.bar=a\nb\nc\nde\nfg foo.baz=bif cb $ FAKEPATH=/path/to/nowhere $ export FAKEPATH $ echo '%include $FAKEPATH/no-such-file' > $HGRC $ hg version Mercurial Distributed SCM (version *) (glob) (see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information) Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Matt Mackall and others This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. $ unset FAKEPATH make sure global options given on the cmdline take precedence $ hg showconfig --config ui.verbose=True --quiet bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP ui.verbose=False ui.debug=False ui.quiet=True $ touch foobar/untracked $ cat >> foobar/.hg/hgrc < [ui] > verbose=True > EOF $ hg -R foobar st -q username expansion $ olduser=$HGUSER $ unset HGUSER $ FAKEUSER='John Doe' $ export FAKEUSER $ echo '[ui]' > $HGRC $ echo 'username = $FAKEUSER' >> $HGRC $ hg init usertest $ cd usertest $ touch bar $ hg commit --addremove --quiet -m "added bar" $ hg log --template "{author}\n" John Doe $ cd .. $ hg showconfig bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP ui.username=$FAKEUSER $ unset FAKEUSER $ HGUSER=$olduser $ export HGUSER showconfig with multiple arguments $ echo "[alias]" > $HGRC $ echo "log = log -g" >> $HGRC $ echo "[defaults]" >> $HGRC $ echo "identify = -n" >> $HGRC $ hg showconfig alias defaults alias.log=log -g defaults.identify=-n $ hg showconfig alias defaults.identify abort: only one config item permitted [255] $ hg showconfig alias.log defaults.identify abort: only one config item permitted [255] HGPLAIN $ echo "[ui]" > $HGRC $ echo "debug=true" >> $HGRC $ echo "fallbackencoding=ASCII" >> $HGRC $ echo "quiet=true" >> $HGRC $ echo "slash=true" >> $HGRC $ echo "traceback=true" >> $HGRC $ echo "verbose=true" >> $HGRC $ echo "style=~/.hgstyle" >> $HGRC $ echo "logtemplate={node}" >> $HGRC $ echo "[defaults]" >> $HGRC $ echo "identify=-n" >> $HGRC $ echo "[alias]" >> $HGRC $ echo "log=log -g" >> $HGRC customized hgrc $ hg showconfig read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc $TESTTMP/hgrc:13: alias.log=log -g none: bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP $TESTTMP/hgrc:11: defaults.identify=-n $TESTTMP/hgrc:2: ui.debug=true $TESTTMP/hgrc:3: ui.fallbackencoding=ASCII $TESTTMP/hgrc:4: ui.quiet=true $TESTTMP/hgrc:5: ui.slash=true $TESTTMP/hgrc:6: ui.traceback=true $TESTTMP/hgrc:7: ui.verbose=true $TESTTMP/hgrc:8: ui.style=~/.hgstyle $TESTTMP/hgrc:9: ui.logtemplate={node} plain hgrc $ HGPLAIN=; export HGPLAIN $ hg showconfig --config ui.traceback=True --debug read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc none: bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP none: ui.traceback=True none: ui.verbose=False none: ui.debug=True none: ui.quiet=False plain mode with exceptions $ cat > plain.py < def uisetup(ui): > ui.write('plain: %r\n' % ui.plain()) > EOF $ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRC $ echo "plain=./plain.py" >> $HGRC $ HGPLAINEXCEPT=; export HGPLAINEXCEPT $ hg showconfig --config ui.traceback=True --debug plain: True read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc none: bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP $TESTTMP/hgrc:15: extensions.plain=./plain.py none: ui.traceback=True none: ui.verbose=False none: ui.debug=True none: ui.quiet=False $ unset HGPLAIN $ hg showconfig --config ui.traceback=True --debug plain: True read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc none: bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP $TESTTMP/hgrc:15: extensions.plain=./plain.py none: ui.traceback=True none: ui.verbose=False none: ui.debug=True none: ui.quiet=False $ HGPLAINEXCEPT=i18n; export HGPLAINEXCEPT $ hg showconfig --config ui.traceback=True --debug plain: True read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc none: bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP $TESTTMP/hgrc:15: extensions.plain=./plain.py none: ui.traceback=True none: ui.verbose=False none: ui.debug=True none: ui.quiet=False