annotate mercurial/helptext/extensions.txt @ 45077:fa270dcbdb55

procutil: back out 8403cc54bc83 (make ....procutil.stderr unbuffered)

Changeset 8403cc54bc83 introduced code that opens a second file object
referring to the stderr file descriptor. This broke tests on Windows. The
reason is that on Windows, sys.stderr is buffered and procutil.stderr closed
the file descriptor when it got garbage collected before sys.stderr had the
chance to flush buffered data.

`procutil.stdout` had the same problem for a long time, but we didn’t realize,
as in CI test runs, stdout is not a TTY and in this case no second file object
is opened.

Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.

To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::

  [extensions]
  foo =

You may also specify the full path to an extension::

  [extensions]
  myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py

See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files.

Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such
as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready
for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock
Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.

To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::

  [extensions]
  # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
  bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
  # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
  baz = !