[ANN] hg-config

[Rafael Villar Burke]

Steve Borho wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 01:32 +0100, TK Soh wrote:
>   
>>> hg config gui.username
>>> hg config paths.default
>>> ...
>>>       
>> +1. This is avoid 'polluting' hg's command space
>>     
>
> ok, I can see the benefit of moving all the commands inside 'hg config',
> but gui.username could eventually conflict with a section named gui.
>
> How about this syntax?
>
> hg config [-l|--local] section.key [value]
>
> Sets config option in hgrc:
> [section]
> key=value
>
> Local flag toggles between ~/.hgrc and $root/.hg/hgrc
>
> If the first argument has no period, check if it's a GUI
> request (username, webconf, etc), else abort
>
> The value argument can be omitted to create:
> [section]
> key=
>   

That was the intended syntax. Sorry for not being clear and omitting the 
values. I was thinking in something like this: 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html

It has also options to delete, only add, replace or list entries.

Regards, and thanks for your great work,

Rafael Villar Burke