is this intentional?

[Peter Hosey]

On Oct 04, 2008, at 04:57:50, Patrick Waugh wrote:
> For example, it is not at all apparent that some [web] options can  
> function in the global, or per-repos hgrc files, while be useless in  
> the per-user config.

That's because this isn't true. All the configuration directives go  
into the same pot (in a specific order), so if you put [web] options  
in the .hgrc file in the web server user's home directory, they will  
work just fine.

Remember, Mercurial is running as the same user as the web server. As  
such, it looks in that user's home directory. There is no reason for  
it to look in any other user's home directory.

The only exception might be in the case of a /~user URL, but I don't  
know whether it handles that case. (There's also REMOTE_USER, but the  
results of some Googling suggest that the value of that variable isn't  
necessary a user account on the machine.)