Use hgrc within $TESTTMP $ HGRCPATH=`pwd`/hgrc $ export HGRCPATH hide outer repo $ hg init Use an alternate var for scribbling on hgrc to keep check-code from complaining about the important settings we may be overwriting: $ HGRC=`pwd`/hgrc $ export HGRC Basic syntax error $ echo "invalid" > $HGRC $ hg version hg: parse error at $TESTTMP/hgrc:1: invalid [255] $ echo "" > $HGRC Issue1199: Can't use '%' in hgrc (eg url encoded username) $ hg init "foo%bar" $ hg clone "foo%bar" foobar updating to branch default 0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ cd foobar $ cat .hg/hgrc # example repository config (see 'hg help config' for more info) [paths] default = $TESTTMP/foo%bar # path aliases to other clones of this repo in URLs or filesystem paths # (see 'hg help config.paths' for more info) # # default:pushurl = ssh://jdoe@example.net/hg/jdoes-fork # my-fork = ssh://jdoe@example.net/hg/jdoes-fork # my-clone = /home/jdoe/jdoes-clone [ui] # name and email (local to this repository, optional), e.g. # username = Jane Doe $ hg paths default = $TESTTMP/foo%bar $ hg showconfig bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP/foobar paths.default=$TESTTMP/foo%bar $ cd .. issue1829: wrong indentation $ echo '[foo]' > $HGRC $ echo ' x = y' >> $HGRC $ hg version hg: parse error at $TESTTMP/hgrc:2: x = y unexpected leading whitespace [255] $ "$PYTHON" -c "from __future__ import print_function; print('[foo]\nbar = a\n b\n c \n de\n fg \nbaz = bif cb \n')" \ > > $HGRC $ hg showconfig foo foo.bar=a\nb\nc\nde\nfg foo.baz=bif cb $ FAKEPATH=/path/to/nowhere $ export FAKEPATH $ echo '%include $FAKEPATH/no-such-file' > $HGRC $ hg version Mercurial Distributed SCM (version *) (glob) (see https://mercurial-scm.org for more information) Copyright (C) 2005-* Matt Mackall and others (glob) This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. $ unset FAKEPATH make sure global options given on the cmdline take precedence $ hg showconfig --config ui.verbose=True --quiet bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP ui.verbose=False ui.debug=False ui.quiet=True $ touch foobar/untracked $ cat >> foobar/.hg/hgrc < [ui] > verbose=True > EOF $ hg -R foobar st -q username expansion $ olduser=$HGUSER $ unset HGUSER $ FAKEUSER='John Doe' $ export FAKEUSER $ echo '[ui]' > $HGRC $ echo 'username = $FAKEUSER' >> $HGRC $ hg init usertest $ cd usertest $ touch bar $ hg commit --addremove --quiet -m "added bar" $ hg log --template "{author}\n" John Doe $ cd .. $ hg showconfig bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP ui.username=$FAKEUSER $ unset FAKEUSER $ HGUSER=$olduser $ export HGUSER showconfig with multiple arguments $ echo "[alias]" > $HGRC $ echo "log = log -g" >> $HGRC $ echo "[defaults]" >> $HGRC $ echo "identify = -n" >> $HGRC $ hg showconfig alias defaults alias.log=log -g defaults.identify=-n $ hg showconfig alias alias alias.log=log -g $ hg showconfig alias.log alias.log alias.log=log -g $ hg showconfig alias defaults.identify alias.log=log -g defaults.identify=-n $ hg showconfig alias.log defaults.identify alias.log=log -g defaults.identify=-n HGPLAIN $ echo "[ui]" > $HGRC $ echo "debug=true" >> $HGRC $ echo "fallbackencoding=ASCII" >> $HGRC $ echo "quiet=true" >> $HGRC $ echo "slash=true" >> $HGRC $ echo "traceback=true" >> $HGRC $ echo "verbose=true" >> $HGRC $ echo "style=~/.hgstyle" >> $HGRC $ echo "logtemplate={node}" >> $HGRC $ echo "[defaults]" >> $HGRC $ echo "identify=-n" >> $HGRC $ echo "[alias]" >> $HGRC $ echo "log=log -g" >> $HGRC customized hgrc $ hg showconfig read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc $TESTTMP/hgrc:13: alias.log=log -g repo: bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP $TESTTMP/hgrc:11: defaults.identify=-n $TESTTMP/hgrc:2: ui.debug=true $TESTTMP/hgrc:3: ui.fallbackencoding=ASCII $TESTTMP/hgrc:4: ui.quiet=true $TESTTMP/hgrc:5: ui.slash=true $TESTTMP/hgrc:6: ui.traceback=true $TESTTMP/hgrc:7: ui.verbose=true $TESTTMP/hgrc:8: ui.style=~/.hgstyle $TESTTMP/hgrc:9: ui.logtemplate={node} plain hgrc $ HGPLAIN=; export HGPLAIN $ hg showconfig --config ui.traceback=True --debug read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc repo: bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP --config: ui.traceback=True --verbose: ui.verbose=False --debug: ui.debug=True --quiet: ui.quiet=False with environment variables $ PAGER=p1 EDITOR=e1 VISUAL=e2 hg showconfig --debug set config by: $EDITOR set config by: $VISUAL set config by: $PAGER read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc repo: bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP $PAGER: pager.pager=p1 $VISUAL: ui.editor=e2 --verbose: ui.verbose=False --debug: ui.debug=True --quiet: ui.quiet=False plain mode with exceptions $ cat > plain.py < from mercurial import commands, extensions > def _config(orig, ui, repo, *values, **opts): > ui.write(b'plain: %r\n' % ui.plain()) > return orig(ui, repo, *values, **opts) > def uisetup(ui): > extensions.wrapcommand(commands.table, b'config', _config) > EOF $ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRC $ echo "plain=./plain.py" >> $HGRC $ HGPLAINEXCEPT=; export HGPLAINEXCEPT $ hg showconfig --config ui.traceback=True --debug plain: True read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc repo: bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP $TESTTMP/hgrc:15: extensions.plain=./plain.py --config: ui.traceback=True --verbose: ui.verbose=False --debug: ui.debug=True --quiet: ui.quiet=False $ unset HGPLAIN $ hg showconfig --config ui.traceback=True --debug plain: True read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc repo: bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP $TESTTMP/hgrc:15: extensions.plain=./plain.py --config: ui.traceback=True --verbose: ui.verbose=False --debug: ui.debug=True --quiet: ui.quiet=False $ HGPLAINEXCEPT=i18n; export HGPLAINEXCEPT $ hg showconfig --config ui.traceback=True --debug plain: True read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc repo: bundle.mainreporoot=$TESTTMP $TESTTMP/hgrc:15: extensions.plain=./plain.py --config: ui.traceback=True --verbose: ui.verbose=False --debug: ui.debug=True --quiet: ui.quiet=False source of paths is not mangled $ cat >> $HGRCPATH < [paths] > foo = bar > EOF $ hg showconfig --debug paths plain: True read config from: $TESTTMP/hgrc $TESTTMP/hgrc:17: paths.foo=$TESTTMP/bar