Not reading Mercurial.ini in Windows system

[Bergquist, Jerome]

Steve,

Thank you for providing a Windows install for Mercurial. This allows me to
have a clone on my WinXP laptop of the current project(s) I am working on
from my Linux server at work. I can then modify those projects at home and
push my changes back to the Linux server when I return.

Just a little info for you. I do not know what is typical of other
companies, but our corporate policies and startup maps a user directory on a
network server to U: and that is the default drive used. Below are the
environment variables you referenced as set (or not) by those policies and
startup.

    Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
    (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

    U:\>echo %HOMEPATH%
    \

    U:\>echo %HOMEDIR%
    %HOMEDIR%

    U:\> 

I chose the %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini file/location from the Mercurial
documentation after I kept getting prompted by commit for a user name. I
then populated that Mercurial.ini from my Linux .hgrc.

    Setting a username

    By default Mercurial uses a username of the form 'user at localhost' for
commits. This is often meaningless. It's best to configure a proper email
address in ~/.hgrc (or on a Win system %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini) by
adding lines such as the following:
    [ui]
    username = Author Name <email at address>

- Jerome

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Borho [mailto:steve at borho.org] 
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:14 AM
To: Bergquist, Jerome
Cc: mercurial at selenic.com
Subject: RE: Not reading Mercurial.ini in Windows system


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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