hgrc.5.text FILES content, ordering implied?

Douglas Philips dgou at mac.com
Wed Aug 19 10:01:46 CDT 2009


My question is about the (Windows) entries in this part of the FILES  
section:

        (Unix) $HOME/.hgrc, (Windows) %HOME%\Mercurial.ini, (Windows)
        %HOME%\.hgrc, (Windows) %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini, (Windows)
        %USERPROFILE%\.hgrc

Is it intended to convey that Mercurial will look for the files in the  
order given?
I ask because in my naiveté I assumed I could have both a .hgrc for my  
*nix systems and Mercurial.ini for my Windows systems (e.g. paths on  
the same kinds of system are the same, but *nix and Windows have very  
different paths). However, it seems that when I have both .hgrc and  
Mercurial.ini, hg on Windows (1.3.1, which was installed with  
TortoiseHg 0.8.1) reads my .hgrc first.

Did I misread by presuming that the order of the files was  
significant, or is there a bug?


Thanks,
	-Doug




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