mercurial/helptext/extensions.txt
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:24:05 +0100
changeset 44124 d56a2d6f34f0
parent 43632 2e017696181f
permissions -rw-r--r--
hgrc: introduce HGRCSKIPREPO to skip reading the repository's hgrc We had a way to change the behavior regarding reading the global and user config, but we had nothing regarding the repository hgrc itself. This option is useful in situation where scripts need to be able to work around strange configuration set by the user in his repository. (and were HGPLAIN is not enough). Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7807

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 = !