[PATCH v3] hg: allow usage of XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $HOME/.config/hg/hgrc

[David Demelier]

Le 14/02/2017 à 14:34, Yuya Nishihara a écrit :
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 09:37:48 -0800, Jun Wu wrote:
>> Excerpts from David Demelier's message of 2017-02-13 15:43:45 +0100:
>>> Le 10/02/2017 à 10:08, Raffaele Salmaso a écrit :
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 9:19 AM, David Demelier
>>>> <demelier.david at gmail.com <mailto:demelier.david at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     I've updated the code so that hg config --edit still create a
>>>>     ~/.hgrc file first if no file is found.
>>>>
>>>> Why?
>>>> If you support this specs, I expect it does the right thing by default
>>>> (or at least ask, if any)
>>>>
>>>> A lot of things can go wrong even for $HOME/.hgrc, so I don't think it
>>>> is a bigger problem creating a directory first
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have no problem with this but I would like to know if everybody agree
>>> with that.
>>>
>>
>> I'm +1 on creating the directory and editing XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hg/hgrc if
>> ~/.hgrc does not exist.
>
> -1 for compatibility with old versions. Since old hg won't read .config/hg/hgrc,
> creating it by default could confuse users.
>

So if I understand correctly, that means:

1. the user installs a recent version of Mercurial
2. the user init a config using hg config --edit
3. the user downgrades Mercurial