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1 Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of |
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2 extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to |
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3 existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or |
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4 implement hooks. |
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6 To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the |
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7 Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file, |
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8 like this:: |
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10 [extensions] |
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11 foo = |
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13 You may also specify the full path to an extension:: |
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15 [extensions] |
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16 myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py |
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18 See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files. |
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20 Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons: |
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21 they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced |
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22 usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such |
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23 as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready |
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24 for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock |
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25 Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as |
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28 To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of |
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29 broader scope, prepend its path with !:: |
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31 [extensions] |
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32 # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py |
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33 bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py |
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34 # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz |
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35 baz = ! |