Mercurial options

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Sun Nov 22 12:01:21 UTC 2020


On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 12:59:45 -0700, Craig Ozancin wrote:
> The first is just a minor issue. hg-evolve always reports new obsolete
> changesets. This is true even when the -q / --quiet option is given.

Sounds like a minor bug of evolve?

> [alias]
> test    = ! ~/bin/test
> 
> All works as expected.
> 
> Mercurial makes the following available to test:
> 
> HG  an exported variable with the path to hg
> HG_ARGS set to test
> 
> I always use $HG in my scripts. HG_ARGS not so much.
> 
> The problem is when I call hg with extra options.
> 
>     hg --hidden test
> 
>     or
> 
>     hg --color never test
> 
> Test runs without knowing that these options were used.

Maybe HG_FULLARGS or HG_EARLYARGS can be added. It wasn't possible when shell
alias was introduced, but it should be easy now.

Can you file a feature request to bugzilla?

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/BugTracker



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