[PATCH] Support remote access to (some) "hgrc" parameters

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

I just realized that "hg showconfig" uses your dot-notation, too. Hmm.
-peo

On Jan 9, 2008 7:53 PM, Peter Arrenbrecht <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there any convention for absolute parameter names?  For example,
> > what is the full name of the "bar" parameter here:
> >
> >     [foo]
> >     bar = baz
> >
> > ?  Maybe "foo.bar"?
>
> Consider
>
>   [foo.bar]
>   baz = 1
>   [foo]
>   bar.baz = 1
>
> So I'd rather go for
>
>   [publish]
>   foo]bar.baz =
>   foo.bar]baz =
>
> Admittedly ugly, but less ambiguous I think.
> -peo
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2008 4:19 PM, Glenn Ammons <ammons at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Peter Arrenbrecht" <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Jan 9, 2008 9:01 AM, Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> wrote:
> > >> * Glenn Ammons <ammons at us.ibm.com> [20080108 21:15]:
> > >> > "Thomas Arendsen Hein" <thomas at intevation.de> writes:
> > >> > > * Glenn Ammons <ammons at us.ibm.com> [20080103 10:32]:
> > >> > >> To answer your second question, there is no relation between
> > >> > >> parameters in [public.foo] and those in [foo].  They are separate
> > >> > >> sections.  The first one is accessible remotely.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > This sounds unfortunate as the public values are kind of useless
> > >> > > then. I'd rather like to see e.g. a [public] section (or use the
> > >> > > same name as the extension which provides this) and list whole
> > >> > > sections or single parameters tp publish here.
> > >
> > > I second this. It would be a lot more flexible, and ensure that
> > > publishing something is always a conscious act, not just a consequence
> > > of a plugin requiring config information to be in a public.* section.
> >
> > OK.  I'll make the change and send a new patch soon, in which this
> > will also be an extension.
> >
> > Is there any convention for absolute parameter names?  For example,
> > what is the full name of the "bar" parameter here:
> >
> >     [foo]
> >     bar = baz
> >
> > ?  Maybe "foo.bar"?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > --glenn
> >
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