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=== Proposal for naming: allow _ and - anywhere === ==== Proposal: use - in config examples ====
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Since we have a strong backward compatibility concern, DavidDemelier have a proposal that he saw in a software a long time ago. The idea is to allow adding any underscore or hyphens in options and they are simply removed when loaded from the configuration. While major options can be written in only one word, we should start using hyphens between words.
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[ui]
username = blabla
    allow-pull
    allow-push
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Is equivalent to

{{{
[ui]
user_name = blabla
}}}

Or even to

{{{
[ui]
us_er-na_me = blabla
}}}

When loading options, both underscores and hyphens will be simply discarded. This implementation will allow us renaming options in the .hgrc file without any restrictions and/or backward compatibility issues.

==== Proposal: use - or _ in config examples ====

While major options can be written in only one word, we should start using hyphens or underscores between words.

People who think that '''backgroundcloseminfilecount''', '''graphnodetemplate''', '''mergemarkertemplate''' are actually readable should consider stop programming.

==== Problems ====

Only options like '''post-<command>''' must not be mangled by the process of removing extraneous -_ characters.

What do to with them?
Names like '''backgroundcloseminfilecount''', '''graphnodetemplate''', '''mergemarkertemplate''' are actually not readable by humans.
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 * {x} write official naming guideline for options

regarding naming

* Implement code to allow extra -_ characters

regarding config declaration

 * {x}
implement a central declaration
 * (./) write official naming guideline for options
 * (./) implement a central declaration
 * (./) implement alias support

Note:

This page is primarily intended for developers of Mercurial.

Configuration consolidation

Status: Project

Main proponents: DavidDemelier,Pierre-Yves David

/!\ This is a speculative project and does not represent any firm decisions on future behavior.

Make the .hgrc file more unified.

1. Goal

The goal of this project is to make a clear coding style regarding the .hgrc configuration options.

2. Detailed description

The current .hgrc configuration options is messed with many different styles:

  • anoption (~ 192 options, many are unreadable)
  • an_option (~ 8 options)
  • an-option (~ 7 options)

Having a unified style makes the code cleaner, better integrated.

In addition, having guideline for sections would be useful. In Mercurial core + bundle extension we have about 300 configuration option. They are spread in the following sections:

     34 ui
     28 convert
     27 experimental
     21 web
     20 bugzilla
     19 lists
     13 notify
     10 format
     10 devel
      9 values
      9 profiling
      7 server
      6 smtp
      5 worker
      5 patchbomb
      5 http_proxy
      4 progress
      4 mq
      3 pager
      3 histedit
      3 factotum
      3 eol
      3 email
      2 transplant
      2 share
      2 phases
      2 paths
      2 patch
      2 merge
      2 hostsecurity
      2 gpg
      2 fsmonitor
      2 color
      2 chgserver
      2 bundle
      2 blackbox
      2 acl
      1 win32text
      1 win32mbcs
      1 shelve
      1 perf
      1 keywordset
      1 hook
      1 hgk
      1 fakepatchtime
      1 fakedirstatewritetime
      1 debug
      1 cmdserver
      1 censor
      1 bookmarks
      1 automv

There are *many* options is the [ui] section and many section with version few config. Gathering related options in the same config section have multiple advantages. The main one is that it gather the related option in the documentation improving discoverability. For the same reason, having too many options is the [ui] is drowning the important ones in the help of more minor ones.

2.0.1. Proposal: use - in config examples

While major options can be written in only one word, we should start using hyphens between words.

Example:

    allow-pull
    allow-push

Names like backgroundcloseminfilecount, graphnodetemplate, mergemarkertemplate are actually not readable by humans.

2.1. Proposal for sections: central config declaration

Currently, config options do not needs to be declared in any special way. You just fetch a value in the code using ui.config(section, name[, defaultvalue]).

On top of that, we have contrib/check-config.py that runs on the code in the Mercurial repository trying to catch:

  • inconsistent type used in config
  • undocumented config option

The proposal is to have a central declaration of all known configs options. That register would contains:

  • section,
  • name,
  • default value,
  • documentation,
  • state: (deprecated, experimental, etc)

2.1.1. direct benefit

  • an issue devel warning on access to undefined option. Catching bug from minor typo (eg: ui.config('path',…) vs ui.config('paths',…))

  • have declaration/documentation checks also runs for out of core extensions,
  • it becomes less error prone to update an option default value,
  • makes it easier for extensions to change default value,
  • makes it easier to discover existing config and section when adding a new options,

2.1.2. sub-proposal: config renaming

We could have official "config alias". For example, let's say we could rename ui.clonebundleprefers to clonebundle.preference, we declare the rename in the central repository and on access, if clonebundle.preference is undefined, the old name is checked instead (possibly with a transformation).

That would come really handy in regard with experimental option as we could rename them without breaking existing users.

Having such feature would also allow a large cleanup on the existing config options to merge some related section together and to split some minor options out of the [ui] section.

In addition, we could also, decide on one form standard for config option "name" (as describe in the earlier part of the document) and rename all existing one to match our pick.

3. Roadmap

  • (./) write official naming guideline for options

  • (./) implement a central declaration

  • (./) implement alias support

  • {x} migrate documentation and default config to the central declaration
  • {x} devel warning for non-existing/inconsistent access
  • {x} official way for extensions to overwrite default
  • {x} implement config "forwarding"
  • {x} reorganize existing sections,

4. SeeAlso


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