hgrc.5.text FILES content, ordering implied?

[Steve Borho]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Douglas Philips<dgou at mac.com> wrote:
> 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?

The documentation does not match the actual behavior.  Mercurial looks
in each directory in the user rcpath for both mercurial.ini and .hgrc
files and reads them both.

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Steve Borho