[PATCH] commands: add editconfig command to edit repo/user hgrc

[Steve Losh]

On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:

> On 22.08.2010 22:33, Brodie Rao wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Brodie Rao <brodie at bitheap.org>
>> # Date 1282508457 14400
>> # Node ID ca81962217fac8ff2cf9d2e2264a37450f02235b
>> # Parent  6b04f1e1aa8a81a87ac75e35377e3266f75eaf0c
>> commands: add editconfig command to edit repo/user hgrc
>> 
>> "hg editconfig" provides a happy medium between making the user edit
>> their hgrc manually and providing a command to edit specific settings.
>> 
>> Without any arguments, the command will load the repo's hgrc in an
>> editor if the user is inside a repo. Otherwise, it loads the user's hgrc.
>> 
>> A -u/--user option is provided if the user wishes to edit the user hgrc
>> while inside a repo.
> 
> I would prefer to abort with
> 
>  abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!
> 
> iff "without arguments" and "outside a repo" -- instead of silently
> switching to the user's hgrc.
> 
> As a side note, I'd expect 'hg -R repoX editconfig' to edit the hgrc of
> repoX. So I assume this to be equivalent for "being inside a repo".
> 
> -u/--user should always be needed if the user wants to edit the 'user hgrc'.
> 
> People could then for example do:
> 
> [alias]
> repocfg = editconfig
> usercfg = editconfig --user
> 
>> This also has the added benefit of working the same across platforms,
>> instead of requiring the user to hunt down their user hgrc in different
>> places depending on whether they're on win32 or posix.
> 
> Other than that, I think this is a nice idea.

+1 on all of this.  Explicit is better than implicit.

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