diff doc/hgrc.5.txt @ 11838:d4bfa07f269f

url: limit expansion to safe auth keys (Issue2328) Mads Kiilerich pointed out that 7c9beccb0533 was too eager since the prefix and password keys may contain $-signs. So this only add the username to the list of keys that are expanded. This also updates the documentation to match.
author Martin Geisler <mg@aragost.com>
date Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:53:10 +0200
parents a86fd45c1911
children ffcceca7406d
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--- a/doc/hgrc.5.txt	Fri Aug 13 10:28:59 2010 +0200
+++ b/doc/hgrc.5.txt	Fri Aug 13 10:53:10 2010 +0200
@@ -232,16 +232,19 @@
     argument, q.v., is then subsequently consulted.
 ``username``
     Optional. Username to authenticate with. If not given, and the
-    remote site requires basic or digest authentication, the user
-    will be prompted for it.
+    remote site requires basic or digest authentication, the user will
+    be prompted for it. Environment variables are expanded in the
+    username letting you do ``foo.username = $USER``.
 ``password``
     Optional. Password to authenticate with. If not given, and the
     remote site requires basic or digest authentication, the user
     will be prompted for it.
 ``key``
-    Optional. PEM encoded client certificate key file.
+    Optional. PEM encoded client certificate key file. Environment
+    variables are expanded in the filename.
 ``cert``
-    Optional. PEM encoded client certificate chain file.
+    Optional. PEM encoded client certificate chain file. Environment
+    variables are expanded in the filename.
 ``schemes``
     Optional. Space separated list of URI schemes to use this
     authentication entry with. Only used if the prefix doesn't include