help: clarify that the Windows registry key for hgrc files is systemwide
authorMatt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:33:37 -0500
changeset 43957 14d282b57e24
parent 43956 1ccf340acf14
child 43958 d825e7e0ca6e
help: clarify that the Windows registry key for hgrc files is systemwide Since there's no version or path info here to distinguish between installations, it is effectively systemwide (unless splitting hairs about the WoW64 registry redirection). Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7693
mercurial/helptext/config.txt
--- a/mercurial/helptext/config.txt	Tue Dec 17 22:08:07 2019 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/helptext/config.txt	Tue Dec 17 22:33:37 2019 -0500
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
   - ``%USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini`` (per-user)
   - ``%HOME%\.hgrc`` (per-user)
   - ``%HOME%\Mercurial.ini`` (per-user)
-  - ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial`` (per-installation)
+  - ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial`` (per-system)
   - ``<install-dir>\hgrc.d\*.rc`` (per-installation)
   - ``<install-dir>\Mercurial.ini`` (per-installation)
   - ``%PROGRAMDATA%\Mercurial\hgrc`` (per-system)