Mercurial > hg
changeset 7805:cf6ec23a1bb5
help: better explanation for some of the environment variables
In particular, the precedence for usernames is explained in more detail.
Thanks to timeless for pointing out the deficiencies here.
| author | Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan@ochtman.nl> |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:23:23 +0100 |
| parents | 06afe0f9dbf8 |
| children | 6d0cf2a2acad |
| files | mercurial/help.py |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/help.py Sat Feb 28 12:21:41 2009 +0100 +++ b/mercurial/help.py Sat Feb 28 12:23:23 2009 +0100 @@ -134,21 +134,27 @@ platform default search path is used. If empty, only the .hg/hgrc from the current repository is read. - For each element in path, if a directory, all entries in directory - ending with ".rc" are added to path. Else, element itself is - added to path. + For each element in HGRCPATH: + * if it's a directory, all directories ending with .rc are added + * otherwise, the directory itself will be added HGUSER:: - This is the string used as the author of a commit. + This is the string used as the author of a commit. If not set, + available values will be considered in this order: + + * HGUSER (deprecated) + * hgrc files from the HGRCPATH + * EMAIL + * interactive prompt + * LOGNAME (with '@hostname' appended) (deprecated, use .hgrc) EMAIL:: - If HGUSER is not set, this will be used as the author for a commit. + May be used as the author of a commit; see HGUSER. LOGNAME:: - If neither HGUSER nor EMAIL is set, LOGNAME will be used (with - '@hostname' appended) as the author value of a commit. + May be used as the author of a commit; see HGUSER. VISUAL:: This is the name of the editor to use when committing. See EDITOR.