Not reading Mercurial.ini in Windows system

[Steve Borho]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 11:42 -0400, Bergquist, Jerome wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the info.  The next NSI installer will use USERPROFILE to set
HGRCPATH, since that is the environment variable Mercurial uses
internally.

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