Not reading Mercurial.ini in Windows system

[Steve Borho]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:45 -0400, Bergquist, Jerome wrote:
> I have been using Mercurial on my Linux system for some time and I
> love it!
> 
> I have just loaded it on my Windows system and cloned some projects. I
> created the %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini as outlined in the HGRC(5)
> page and copied my Linux .hgrc configurations to it but it does not
> appear that hg is reading that file.
> 
> When I commit changes I get prompted for the user name. The user name
> I type in DOES get written back to the %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini but
> is not read next time and I get prompted again. I also changed some of
> the default command flags to see if they get read and they do not
> either.

It sounds like you're using one of my windows packages.  I've not seen
any problems like this before.  It seems hg-config is finding your
Mercurial.ini but Mercurial itself is not.  Could you reply with the
output to these commands?

hg version
echo %HGRCPATH%
hg showconfig ui.username
hg config -g ui.username

> I created a C:\Mercurial folder and copiet that Mercurial.ini into as
> well and that did not work either. I have tried saving the
> Mercurial.ini as a DOS (CR/LF terminated) and as a Unix (LF
> terminated) file but that did not make a difference either. Is there
> something I am missing?

None of these should make any difference.  The problem is in the hgrc
search path.

Cheers,

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