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

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue May 31 10:46:06 CDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 17:30 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately, there are no ui objects at this layer.

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