Script to add (and cache) username

[Dave S]

(Copying the list)


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Dave S <snidely.too at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Marcin Kasperski <
> Marcin.Kasperski at mekk.waw.pl> wrote:
>
>> Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 20:09 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Does anybody has a script to prompt and add hg username to the nearest
>> >> .hg/hgrc config?
>> >
>> > You do know about ~/.hgrc, right? The vast majority of users only do
>> > this once and never think about it again.
>>
>> Management of multiple identities (for example corporate vs private) is
>> a bit of hassle…
>>
>> { As such projects usually end up in different directories, something like
>>   „directory-tree-local .hgrc could help noticeably, not only for
>>   username, but also for things like [extra] extensions, some auth
>>   settings, even http proxy. Considering mercurial already merges
>>   settings from local repo, ~/.hgrc and /etc/mercurial/, maybe adding
>>   .hgrc's lying on the path upwards from working directory toward $HOME
>>   would not be that horribly difficult? }
>>
>
> I'm not sure it helps with the multiple identities, but does the projrc
> extension help with the other aspects?
>
> <http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ProjrcExtension>
>
> /dps
>
>



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