ConfigExtension is now shipped, right?

Sean Farley sean.michael.farley at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 16:11:14 CST 2015


Matt Mackall writes:

> On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 19:25 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
>> > On 01/25/2015 02:14 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>> >>
>> >> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ConfigExtension
>> >>
>> >> """
>> >> This extension is not distributed with Mercurial.
>> >>
>> >> Author: Steve Borho
>> >> """
>> >>
>> >> It is not true anymore, right?
>> >
>> >
>> > It is still true.
>> 
>> The wiki still needs to be updated. The page above contains this recommendation:
>> 
>>     For command line access to configuration, consider HgcfgExtension.
>> 
>> Is http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HgcfgExtension now actual?
>
> No. Both of these extensions are the "mpm will never allow this in core"
> flavor of the config command, and thus are not in core.

My wild idea was that now that there is a 'hg config -l / -e' command,
we could allow setting via the command line but throw open the result
into the editor. I believe this would still be within mpm's rules of not
conflicting with comments and whatnot that was previously a showstopper.


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