Accessing configuration of remote repositories

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:48:53AM -0500, Glenn Ammons wrote:
> This is a repeat of an email that I sent to the mercurial list last
> week; there were no replies so I thought I'd try here.
> 
> I am writing an extension in which each Mercurial repository refers to
> another data store.  When changes are pushed from Mercurial repository
> A to Mercurial repository B, I first want to push any additions to the
> store referred to by A to the store referred to by B.  To do that, I
> need to know where A's store is and where B's store is.
> 
> Right now, the location of the store is kept in an hgrc parameter.
> So, during a push from A to B, my extension needs to read the hgrc
> parameter for the remote repository B.  I've been looking through the
> code and haven't been able to find a way to do that.  Is there a way
> to read an hgrc parameter for a remote repository?  If not, why not?

No; there can be things like passwords there.

> I'd also appreciate suggestions about other places to keep this
> information, so that it can be accessed remotely.

You could check in a map.

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