comparison mercurial/help/config.txt @ 22205:9fa429723f26

ui: invoke editor for committing with HGEDITFORM environment variable

At the external editor invocation for committing, the value specified
as "editform" for "cmdutil.getcommiteditor" is in "HGEDITFORM".

This enables external editor to do own customization according to
commit types.

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These dot-separated lists of names are treated as hierarchical ones.
For example, ``changeset.tag.remove`` customizes the commit message
only for :hg:`tag --remove`, but ``changeset.tag`` customizes the
commit message for :hg:`tag` regardless of ``--remove`` option.

In this section, items other than ``changeset`` can be referred from
others. For example, the configuration to list committed files up
below can be referred as ``{listupfiles}``::

    [committemplate]

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These dot-separated lists of names are treated as hierarchical ones.
For example, ``changeset.tag.remove`` customizes the commit message
only for :hg:`tag --remove`, but ``changeset.tag`` customizes the
commit message for :hg:`tag` regardless of ``--remove`` option.

At the external editor invocation for committing, corresponding
dot-separated list of names without ``changeset.`` prefix
(e.g. ``commit.normal``) is in ``HGEDITFORM`` environment variable.

In this section, items other than ``changeset`` can be referred from
others. For example, the configuration to list committed files up
below can be referred as ``{listupfiles}``::

    [committemplate]