[PATCH] Per-host remotecmd option in .hgrc

[Matt Mackall]

On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 01:11 +0200, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote, On 09/30/2011 09:36 PM:
> > On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 22:25 +0400, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> >> dsamersoff: Per-host remotecmd option in .hgrc (issue359)
> >>
> >> Patch below allows user to setup per-host remotecmd in the .hgrc file
> >> in the form:
> >>
> >> [ui]
> >> remotecmd = /opt/bin/hg
> >> remotecmd.mircat.net =/opt/csw/bin/hg
> > Well I can't think of a better solution short of adding a bunch of
> > per-host sections.
> 
> This adds another way of doing host-specifc configuration, different 
> from what we already have for hostfingerprints and auth.

Agreed, we should aim for some uniformity here.

>  I think it 
> would be slightly better to add a remotecmd section. That could perhaps 
> simplye be "implemented" by documenting it as
> [ui.remotecmd]
> mircat.net = ...

Hmm, that's not especially appealing. And it sort of implies a similar
trick can be done for all ui settings.

The various sections existing per-host settings look like this:

[auth]
foo.prefix = example.com/path
foo.username = bob
foo.schemes = http https

[hostfingerprints]
example.com = 38:76:52:7c:87:26:9a:8f:4a:f8:d3:de:08:45:3b:ea:d6:4b:ee:cc

..so it's already a bit late to be consistent unless we do something
more drastic.

Also, we probably want to specify ui.ssh in a consistent fashion.

I think we should seriously consider replacing this mess with a
consistent per-host schema of some sort.

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