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cleanup: remove pointless r-prefixes on double-quoted strings This is only double-quoted strings. I'll do single-quoted strings as a second step. These had existed because our source transformer didn't turn r"" into b"", so we had tagged some strings as r-strings to get "native" strings on both Pythons. Now that the transformer is gone, we can dispense with this nonsense. Methodology: I ran hg locate 'set:added() or modified() or clean()' | egrep '.*\.py$' | xargs egrep --color=never -n -- \[\^a-z\]r\"\[\^\"\\\\\]\*\"\[\^\"\] in an emacs grep-mode buffer, and then used a keyboard macro to iterate over the results and remove the r prefix as needed. # skip-blame removing unneeded r prefixes left over from Python 3 migration. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7305
author Augie Fackler <augie@google.com>
date Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:18:19 -0500
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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 = !