Mercurial 1.1 released!

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 07:12:20 CST 2008


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:03 AM,  <pascal.quantin at free.fr> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> thanks for updating the Windows installer.
>>> Unfortunately I'm facing an issue with this new release. The configuration done in Mercurial.ini file (c:\Program Files\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini) is not taken into account by hg. It does not appear when executing a hg showconfig command and none of my optional extensions is activated. c:\Program Files\Mercurial is part of my environment path. It works fine is I copy its content in my C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Mercurial.ini file.
>>> Is anyone else facing the same issue ? Is it an intended behaviour change in 1.1 release ?
>
>>The rcpath extension can be used to find out which startup files are in use:
>
>>hg rcpath
>
>>or available but Not used:
>
>>hg rcpath -n
>
> I get the following result:
>
> hg rcpath
> C:\Documents and Settings\PQU\mercurial.ini
>
> hg rcpath -n
> c:\mercurial\mercurial.ini
> C:\Documents and Settings\PQU\.hgrc
>
> So it seems that the <install-dir>\Mercurial.ini path as specified in HGRC(5) documentation is no more taken into account (at least with my computer).

What happens if you create c:\mercurial\mercurial.ini with a lower case "m"?


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