hgrc.5.text FILES content, ordering implied?

[Steve Borho]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Martin Geisler<mg at lazybytes.net> wrote:
> Douglas Philips <dgou at mac.com> writes:
>
>> On or about 2009 Aug 27, at 4:11 AM, Martin Geisler indited:
>>
>>> The idea is to accumulate configuration values from different files,
>>> loaded in order from least specific (/etc/mercurial on Unix) to most
>>> specific (.hg/hgrc). I think that is fine as it is.
>>>
>>> The question is mostly if we should let hg read mercurial.ini on Unix
>>> systems?
>>
>> I am very concerned by this, and looking at the code in windows.py, it
>> sure has the feel of "Shaw, Pshaw, here's a smattering of files,
>> you'll probably find -one- of 'em."
>>
>> Please explain the logic behind needing both mercurial.ini and .hgrc
>> on Windows, in the same directory, and why it is better to extend that
>> to non-Windows platforms than to fix Windows.
>
> I'm not sure there is a "need" as such -- it is enough if Mercurial
> would load one file on each system, especially now that a config file
> can include other config files (so both .hgrc and Mercurial.ini could
> include a file with common settings).
>
> Would you prefer Mercurial to load only Mercurial.ini on Windows and
> only .hgrc on Unix, and that we deprecate the .hgrc file on Windows?

Does anyone run Mercurial on cygwin?  Does that platform use the
windows version of util or the posix version?  The only reason to
support ~/.hgrc on the Windows platform, IMHO,  is for cygwin.

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Steve Borho