ProjrcExtension questions

[Martin Geisler]

Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
>> Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I setup a repository and I added a projrc file to the .hg folder.
>>> The .hg/projrc file contents were:
>>>
>>> [extensions]
>>> highlight=
>>>
>>> The idea was to try to see if I could automatically enable an
>>> extension. The particular extension that I was trying to enable does
>>> not matter.
>>>
>>> I started the mercurial web server on that repo and cloned
>>> http://localhost:8000. This created a clone of the repository which
>>> has a copy of the projrc file in its .hg folder.
>>
>> That's good -- the projrc extension works on both ends then. What's
>> left is to load the settings and load them at the right moment. There
>> are some things that you cannot do in the projrc file: you cannot
>> make it disable an extension. This is simply because the extension
>> might have been loaded already when the projrc extension is
>> initialized and so it's too late to set 'extensions.foo = !'.
>>
>>> The problem is that when I opened the clone in TortsoiseHg and when
>>> to the settings dialog the extension was not enabled.
>>
>> Okay... try 'hg showconfig extensions' from the command line instead.
>> I've never tested this with TortoiseHg.
>
> That seems to be one of the problems. "hg showconfig extensions" returns:
>
> extensions.highlight=
> extensions.bookmarks=
> extensions.bugzilla=
> extensions.churn=
> extensions.color=
> extensions.convert=
> extensions.graphlog=
> extensions.largefiles=
> extensions.mq=
> extensions.notify=
> extensions.patchbomb=
> extensions.progress=
> extensions.projrc=E:\aem\Workspaces\mercurial\hgrcshare\projrc.py
> extensions.purge=
> extensions.rebase=
> extensions.transplant=
>
> Which means that the highlight extension has been properly enabled. If
> I manually edit the projrc file and remove the reference to the
> highlight extesion then it is not shown by "hg showconfig extensions".
>
> So it seems that TortoiseHg settings dialog is not picking up the
> change. My next step will be to check whether the settings are still
> used by TortoiseHg when it runs a mercurial command.
>
> Am I correct in assuming that most users of this extension do not use
> TortoiseHg?

That's a good question, maybe David can shed more light on this.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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