[PATCH] Support remote access to (some) "hgrc" parameters

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Peter Arrenbrecht <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> [20080110 09:49]:
> I just realized that "hg showconfig" uses your dot-notation, too. Hmm.
> -peo
> 
> On Jan 9, 2008 7:53 PM, Peter Arrenbrecht <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is there any convention for absolute parameter names?  For example,
> > > what is the full name of the "bar" parameter here:
> > >
> > >     [foo]
> > >     bar = baz
> > >
> > > ?  Maybe "foo.bar"?
> >
> > Consider
> >
> >   [foo.bar]
> >   baz = 1
> >   [foo]
> >   bar.baz = 1
> >
> > So I'd rather go for
> >
> >   [publish]
> >   foo]bar.baz =
> >   foo.bar]baz =
> >
> > Admittedly ugly, but less ambiguous I think.

So section names should not contain dots anyway.
We can ignore this problem and use foo.bar

Thomas

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