[PATCH RFC stable] help: refer to user configuration file as hg configuration file

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Wed Sep 1 13:06:49 CDT 2010


On 01.09.2010 09:12, timeless wrote:
> Sorry, I was away for a longish weekend (and am shortly going to be
> away for much longer).
> 
> My original comment from my mail backlog on this subject was (unsent
> since I wanted to see what happened before sending it):
> 
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Martin Geisler <mg at lazybytes.net> wrote:
>>  "please specify your commit editor/username in your configuration file"
> 
> in your _hg_ configuration file.

I'd prefer 'configuration file' (not 'hg configuration file').

> The reason to use "hg configuration file" instead of "configuration
> file" is this pair of lines from contrib/pylintrc:
> # Specify a configuration file.
> #rcfile=
> 
> Not all "configuration file"s in the codebase are hg configuration
> files. And similarly, googling for "configuration file" is not going
> to do anyone any good:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22configuration+file%22
> 

I don't think that's enough reason to go for 'hg configuration file'.

The context for 'configuration file' should be clear enough.


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