Default mercurial.ini for Windows

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--- Stephen Darnell <stephen at darnell.plus.com> wrote:

> Bryan wrote:
> >> What's wrong with any of hgrc, hg.rc, hg.ini,
> hgconfig.ini, or
> >> mercurial.(rc|ini|cfg) for all platforms?
> >
> > Why do you think any of those alternate names
> helps?  Just curious.
> 
> My main point was that I think consistency is
> preferrable regardless
> of the actual name chosen, and I was trying to throw
> a couple of
> extra candidates into the pot to see if they were
> acceptable across
> all platforms.
> 
> <thoughts type="personal" class="opinions">
> The 'rc' part seems a little meaningless to me - I
> even googled,
> and came across a few links (common problem eh?) but
> try here:
> 
>
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/faq/part1/section-6.html
> which claims "Run commands" which I think is a
> misuse for a plain
> config file (but makes more sense for the shell,
> editors, /etc/rc.d/..., 
> etc.)
> [One link offered a better (but less correct?):
> Resource Configuration]
> 
> To me, the format of the file is an 'ini' file but
> that is also
> pretty meaningless: initialisation/configuration
> file
> and probably a bit windows-centric for some tastes.
> 
> The 'hg' part is fine, unless it is jumbled up with
> other files, in
> which case 'mercurial' is probably more descriptive.
> 
> My personal preference? I'd go for "mercurial.cfg".
> </thoughts>
> 
> To re-iterate, I think it is more important to have
> consistently named
> configuration files across platforms, and think
> .hgrc/hgrc is fine.
> 
> Regards,
>   Stephen
> 
> 
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+1 to consistency and to the use of ~/.hgrc on windows
too.

- manpreet

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