Mercurial 1.1 released!

pascal.quantin at free.fr pascal.quantin at free.fr
Wed Dec 3 13:21:45 UTC 2008


>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for updating the Windows installer.
>>>> Unfortunately I'm facing an issue with this new release. The configuration done in Mercurial.ini file (c:\Program Files\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini) is not taken into account by hg. It does not appear when executing a hg showconfig command and none of my optional extensions is activated. c:\Program Files\Mercurial is part of my environment path. It works fine is I copy its content in my C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Mercurial.ini file.
>>>> Is anyone else facing the same issue ? Is it an intended behaviour change in 1.1 release ?
>>
>>>The rcpath extension can be used to find out which startup files are in use:
>>
>>>hg rcpath
>>
>>>or available but Not used:
>>
>>>hg rcpath -n
>>
>> I get the following result:
>>
>> hg rcpath
>> C:\Documents and Settings\PQU\mercurial.ini
>>
>> hg rcpath -n
>> c:\mercurial\mercurial.ini
>> C:\Documents and Settings\PQU\.hgrc
>>
>> So it seems that the <install-dir>\Mercurial.ini path as specified in HGRC(5) documentation is no more taken into account (at least with my computer).

>What happens if you create c:\mercurial\mercurial.ini with a lower case "m"?

Hi,

unfortunately it does not change the behaviour. The file is not used. Moreover the Mercurial.ini file in C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\ directory also has a upper case "M" and is correctly loaded.

Am I the only one to see this issue ?

Regards,
Pascal.



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