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1 Mercurial reads configuration data from several files, if they exist.
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2 Below we list the most specific file first.
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4 On Windows, these configuration files are read:
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6 - ``<repo>\.hg\hgrc``
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7 - ``%USERPROFILE%\.hgrc``
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8 - ``%USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini``
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9 - ``%HOME%\.hgrc``
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10 - ``%HOME%\Mercurial.ini``
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11 - ``C:\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini``
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12 - ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial``
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13 - ``<install-dir>\Mercurial.ini``
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15 On Unix, these files are read:
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17 - ``<repo>/.hg/hgrc``
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18 - ``$HOME/.hgrc``
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19 - ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc``
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20 - ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc``
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21 - ``<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc``
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22 - ``<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc``
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24 The configuration files for Mercurial use a simple ini-file format. A
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25 configuration file consists of sections, led by a ``[section]`` header
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26 and followed by ``name = value`` entries::
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28 [ui]
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29 username = Firstname Lastname <firstname.lastname@example.net>
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30 verbose = True
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32 This above entries will be referred to as ``ui.username`` and
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33 ``ui.verbose``, respectively. Please see the hgrc man page for a full
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34 description of the possible configuration values:
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36 - on Unix-like systems: ``man hgrc``
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37 - online: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html