[PATCH] Check for .hgrc files in ancestor directories above the repository

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:04:38PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:

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>On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 02:53 +0300, Maxim Dounin wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:49:09PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
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>> >On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:43 -0500, Jesse Glick wrote:
>> >> Maxim Dounin wrote:
>> >> > the problem will be still here if you trust user under which home you
>> >> > are working
>> >> 
>> >> So don't add that user to your trusted list.
>> >> 
>> >> (From my own experience on multiuser Unix servers, I don't think I have 
>> >> ever created a source tree beneath someone else's home directory, or 
>> >> even had sufficient permissions to do so - excepting Solaris servers 
>> >> which have the unfortunate policy of making ~root = /.)
>> >> 
>> >> > or if copied homedir e.g. from other machine.
>> >> 
>> >> Is this really a plausible bug scenario either? I don't think I have 
>> >> ever made a complete copy of someone else's home directory (except for 
>> >> administrative backups), or had permissions to do so when not root.
>> >
>> >Also, this is the same scheme used by at least CVS (and probably
>> >others), so I don't think it'll surprise too many folks. 
>> 
>> Could you please point out version of CVS which uses this scheme? 
>> The one I've use doesn't, and the only configuration file it reads 
>> is ~/.cvsrc. I use:
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>I may be thinking of ignore files, which is a different matter entirely.

As far as I see .cvsignore is read from ~/.cvsignore,
$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore and current directory, not even from 
parent directory.

Maxim Dounin