Per project config options

[Angel Ezquerra]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it would be really useful for Mercurial to support per project
> config options in addition to per repo and per user options. When I
> say "per project", I mean that options would be version controlled and
> transferred between repos on clone/push/pull operations, just like
> hgignore rules.
>
> This idea came about while playing with the largefiles extension [1]
> and considering it for my team at work. We would like everyone to use
> standard options for `minsize` and `patterns`. Right now, the only way
> to make that happen is for every person to manually set those options
> (and not forget to do it, and not make a mistake). If our standard
> changes, everyone has to manually update those options again. But if
> these options could be set per project, just one person would make the
> change and everyone else would get the new config when they pull.
>
> The obvious way to have project level config options is to track a
> special file. For example, largefiles options could be moved to
> `<repo>/.hglargefiles`. I bet that having per project config options
> would be useful for more than just largefiles, though, so a general
> purpose config file like `<repo>/.hgrc` would be better. It would be
> just another config file where any option could be specified. The
> order of precedence would be:
>
> 1. Per repo (<repo>/.hg/hgrc)
> 2. Per project (<repo>/.hgrc)
> 3. Per user ($HOME/.hgrc).
>
> I do realize that some things would not be appropriate as per project
> options and could cause issues when transferred to a different repo. I
> contend that this is a semi-advanced feature so the user should know
> what they are doing. I also think that the benefits outweigh this
> potential downside.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve

Steve,

you should have a look at the ProjrcExtension
(http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ProjrcExtension), which comes
bundled with TortoiseHg.

Cheers,

Angel