Not reading Mercurial.ini in Windows system

[Steve Borho]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 10:22 -0400, Bergquist, Jerome wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> Yes, I did use your install script. I had emailed you then about the hg path
> not being added during the install so I was not able to run hg.
> 
> I ran the commands you asked for (see below) and yes, the HGRCPATH was not
> set correctly. I must have missed the HGRCPATH part when reading the setup
> and configuration sections.

The installer should have setup HGRCPATH for you, so you didn't miss
anything.

> I updated the path and it is working now. What was throwing me off was that
> commit found that .ini, in the list of directories that HGRC(5) says it
> looks for, to write the username to even though it did not find it to read
> from. I had run commit with different user names and they were updated in
> the %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini that I had created.
> 
> Thank you Steve again for your help !!

No problem.  Thanks for bringing this to my attention so I can get it
fixed before the next release.

> 	Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> 	(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
> 
> 	U:\>c:
> 
> 	C:\>hg version
> 	Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 0.9.4)
> 
> 	Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> and others
> 	This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There
> is NO
> 	warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
> 
> 	C:\>echo %HGRCPATH%
> 	C:\Python25\mercurial\hgrc.d;U:\\mercurial.ini

This is unexpected.  The install script uses %HOMEPATH%%HOMEDIR% to get
what is usually "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME".  At least on your
computer that was a very bad idea.

So at the least, I should change the script to use %USERPROFILE%.

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