quoting of names in .hgrc

Stefan van der Walt stefan at sun.ac.za
Tue Sep 6 05:42:57 CDT 2005


On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:11:23PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > This way, names like Me "Nickname" <...> or "Me" Myself "I" are left
> > intact, but the quotes are removed from names like "asdads
> > <blah at blah.com>".
> 
> Making this specific to the username setting is too obscure and
> special-case. Making it generic obviously keeps us from putting quotes
> around other things.

I see your point.  Maybe just point out this behaviour in the
man-page, then.  Pity that .hgrc isn't just a normal Python-file --
guess that would be too dangerous?

Regards
Stéfan


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