[PATCH RFC] clone: copy hgrc paths if source and dest are local

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> On 14.06.2010 11:07, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
>>> On 14.06.2010 08:48, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
>>>>> If I am inside a mercurial clone (opened in my GUI), I don't want to
>>>>> have the TortoiseHg paths in scope, i.e. the UI shouldn't show me the
>>>>> TortoiseHg paths if I open the list of defined paths.
>>>>
>>>> Just an idea: We add a [groups] setting to .hg/hgrc, and this causes
>>>> hg to also read ~/.hgrc.x for every x in [groups], containing
>>>> per-group overrides for ~/.hgrc. Then we make local clones copy the
>>>> [groups] setting. This might also be a solution for what I once
>>>> attempted to solve by having hg go back the parent dir hierarchy
>>>> looking for .hgrc.defaults files. Or we use a single group=x setting
>>>> to keep this simpler and use include files in ~/.hgrc.x instead if we
>>>> need composable aspects in .hgrc.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the idea. Perhaps we can avoid introducing yet more config files.
>>>
>>> How about defining a new section [pathgroups] (or just take the name
>>> [groups] for it, dunno).
>>> ...
>>
>> Having proper config files would support configuring more than just
>> paths. For instance things like:
>>
>>   ui.ignore
>>   ui.username
>>   email.to
>>   diff.git
>>   (merge settings)
>>
>> To name just a few that come to mind.
>> -parren
>
> That's true but doesn't solve the case I'm looking at, because it
> doesn't help narrowing down the scope of paths. Unless you repeat the
> group specific paths in every one of your group specific group files.

Indeed. You might resort to include files for this, but I grant that
it's not optimal. Still, I think being able to configure more than
just paths is more important that having maximum comfort for paths.
-parren