On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:49 PM, R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> wrote:
The above statement seems like a really odd design choice, with the potential for causing considerable developer coordination headaches.
Any Mercurial boffins want to talk about how this works in practice?
I'm guessing that's just because it uses Mercurial's built-in configuration file chain (.hg/hgrc, ~/.hgrc and /etc/mercurial/hgrc). Those aren't transmitted with repositories because they can contain potentially security-sensitive information (like triggers for executing interesting hooks and information on what users to trust). It would certainly be possible to write a modified win32text-like extension that takes its cues from a versioned file (like the .hgtags and .hgsigs files currently supported). I'm not sure why the original author didn't go that way, though. Cheers, Dirkjan