view mercurial/helptext/extensions.txt @ 46325:e5e6282fa66a

hghave: split apart testing for the curses module and `tic` executable

ef771d329961 skipped the check for the `tic` executable, because the curses
module alone on Windows is enough to pass the `test-*-curses.t` tests.  However,
`test-status-color.t` uses this same check and explicitly invoked the
executable, which fails on Windows.  From the cursory searching I did, curses on
unix requires `tic`, which I assume is why they were tied together in the first
place.  So this continues to require both to get past the curses guards on non
Windows platforms.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9814

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 = !