largefile: explain why no monkey patching on a repoview
The comment requested for investigations, here they are.
hide outer repo
$ hg init
Invalid syntax: no value
$ cat > .hg/hgrc << EOF
> novaluekey
> EOF
$ hg showconfig
hg: parse error at $TESTTMP/.hg/hgrc:1: novaluekey (glob)
[255]
Invalid syntax: no key
$ cat > .hg/hgrc << EOF
> =nokeyvalue
> EOF
$ hg showconfig
hg: parse error at $TESTTMP/.hg/hgrc:1: =nokeyvalue (glob)
[255]
Test hint about invalid syntax from leading white space
$ cat > .hg/hgrc << EOF
> key=value
> EOF
$ hg showconfig
hg: parse error at $TESTTMP/.hg/hgrc:1: key=value (glob)
unexpected leading whitespace
[255]
$ cat > .hg/hgrc << EOF
> [section]
> key=value
> EOF
$ hg showconfig
hg: parse error at $TESTTMP/.hg/hgrc:1: [section] (glob)
unexpected leading whitespace
[255]
Reset hgrc
$ echo > .hg/hgrc
Test case sensitive configuration
$ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
> [Section]
> KeY = Case Sensitive
> key = lower case
> EOF
$ hg showconfig Section
Section.KeY=Case Sensitive
Section.key=lower case
Test "%unset"
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [unsettest]
> local-hgrcpath = should be unset (HGRCPATH)
> %unset local-hgrcpath
>
> global = should be unset (HGRCPATH)
>
> both = should be unset (HGRCPATH)
>
> set-after-unset = should be unset (HGRCPATH)
> EOF
$ cat >> .hg/hgrc <<EOF
> [unsettest]
> local-hgrc = should be unset (.hg/hgrc)
> %unset local-hgrc
>
> %unset global
>
> both = should be unset (.hg/hgrc)
> %unset both
>
> set-after-unset = should be unset (.hg/hgrc)
> %unset set-after-unset
> set-after-unset = should be set (.hg/hgrc)
> EOF
$ hg showconfig unsettest
unsettest.set-after-unset=should be set (.hg/hgrc)
Test exit code when no config matches
$ hg config Section.idontexist
[1]