Mercurial > hg
changeset 13955:86b5cc1e8be8 stable
help config: explain that config files do not exist by default
Inspired by critique given on StackOverflow where a user writes:
I can have a good guess at what "%USERPROFILE%" might signify but
none of the files listed in the "hg help config" output exist after
running the installer. Previous experience would suggest that
missing files mean something somewhere has gone seriously wrong.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2329023/2351139#2351139
| author | Martin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:57:22 +0200 |
| parents | 1416b9118540 |
| children | 044e1356327d |
| files | mercurial/help/config.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt Tue Apr 19 00:41:47 2011 +0300 +++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt Mon Apr 18 13:57:22 2011 +0200 @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ - ``<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc`` - ``<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc`` +These files do not exist by default and you will have to create the +appropriate configuration files yourself: global configuration like +the username setting is typically put into +``%USERPROFILE%\mercurial.ini`` or ``$HOME/.hgrc`` and local +configuration is put into the per-repository ``<repo>/.hg/hgrc`` file. + If there is a per-repository configuration file which is not owned by the active user, Mercurial will warn you that the file is skipped::