[PATCH] Add %includeifexists, a new type of hgrc include

[Martin Geisler]

Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 01:19 +0100, Tom Fitzhenry wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Tom Fitzhenry <tom at tom-fitzhenry.me.uk>
>> # Date 1306801124 -3600
>> # Node ID 029faced02ef51b7de5c6603f81580267d669c1e
>> # Parent  f6a433671c06ea7986e0cf2c54686d1af7f22ba1
>> Add %includeifexists, a new type of hgrc include
>> 
>> Use case: a user has a hgrc which is shared across multiple machines,
>> /some/ of which have configuration specific to that machine. %include
>> allows the user to include another configuration file, but causes a
>> parse error if the included file does not exist.
>
> Perhaps we should just drop the parse error. This might make it harder
> to debug problems with specifying the filename, but would otherwise be
> harmless. Thoughts?

I would like that, along with a ui.debug message. Maybe we could then
let showconfig output a warning so that it's very clear what's going on.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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