[PATCH] help/config: mention ui.usehttp2

Augie Fackler lists at durin42.com
Wed Jun 22 10:54:58 CDT 2011


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Steven Brown <stevengbrown at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 June 2011 20:34,  <dsp at php.net> wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User David Soria Parra <dsp at php.net>
>> # Date 1308705714 -7200
>> # Branch stable
>> # Node ID 227bb568bdc1981805096598b35dc31daec54fa6
>> # Parent  f503e243511fdfc742a1d845d3d5d4830b58c18a
>> help/config: mention ui.usehttp2
>>
>> diff --git a/mercurial/help/config.txt b/mercurial/help/config.txt
>> --- a/mercurial/help/config.txt
>> +++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt
>> @@ -1084,6 +1084,11 @@
>>     on all exceptions, even those recognized by Mercurial (such as
>>     IOError or MemoryError). Default is False.
>>
>> +``usehttp2`
>> +   Mercurial includes an experimental non blocking http handler. Setthing
>> +   this to true will make Mercurial use the new http handler. Note that
>> +   this feature is experimental and can cause errors. Default is False.
>> +
>>  ``username``
>>     The committer of a changeset created when running "commit".
>>     Typically a person's name and email address, e.g. ``Fred Widget
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>
> This is shorter and I believe it conveys the same information:
> Use the experimental new HTTP handler that is built in to Mercurial.
> Default is False.
>
> It should also explain the benefits of using it. (Which I think is...
> faster pushes to servers which require authentication?)

Faster pushes to http servers with 1.9 and require authentication, and
(AFIACT) more reliable proxy support.

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