pull: allow a generic way to pass parameters to the pull operation
We have been feeling the need for this in extensions for quite some time. This
will be used to pass remote bookmark information around in the next changesets.
hg debuginstall
$ hg debuginstall
checking encoding (ascii)...
checking Python executable (*) (glob)
checking Python version (2.*) (glob)
checking Python lib (*lib*)... (glob)
checking installed modules (*mercurial)... (glob)
checking templates (*mercurial?templates)... (glob)
checking commit editor...
checking username...
no problems detected
hg debuginstall with no username
$ HGUSER= hg debuginstall
checking encoding (ascii)...
checking Python executable (*) (glob)
checking Python version (2.*) (glob)
checking Python lib (*lib*)... (glob)
checking installed modules (*mercurial)... (glob)
checking templates (*mercurial?templates)... (glob)
checking commit editor...
checking username...
no username supplied
(specify a username in your configuration file)
1 problems detected, please check your install!
[1]
path variables are expanded (~ is the same as $TESTTMP)
$ mkdir tools
$ touch tools/testeditor.exe
#if execbit
$ chmod 755 tools/testeditor.exe
#endif
$ hg debuginstall --config ui.editor=~/tools/testeditor.exe
checking encoding (ascii)...
checking Python executable (*) (glob)
checking Python version (*) (glob)
checking Python lib (*lib*)... (glob)
checking installed modules (*mercurial)... (glob)
checking templates (*mercurial?templates)... (glob)
checking commit editor...
checking username...
no problems detected