HGRC(5)

NAME
hgrc - configuration files for Mercurial

SYNOPSIS

The Mercurial system uses a set of configuration files to control aspects of its behavior.

The configuration files use a simple ini-file format. A configuration file consists of sections, led by a [section] header and followed by name = value entries:

[ui]
username = Firstname Lastname <firstname.lastname@example.net>
verbose = True

The above entries will be referred to as ui.username and ui.verbose, respectively. See the Syntax section below.

FILES

Mercurial reads configuration data from several files, if they exist. These files do not exist by default and you will have to create the appropriate configuration files yourself: global configuration like the username setting is typically put into %USERPROFILE%\mercurial.ini or $HOME/.hgrc and local configuration is put into the per-repository <repo>/.hg/hgrc file.

The names of these files depend on the system on which Mercurial is installed. *.rc files from a single directory are read in alphabetical order, later ones overriding earlier ones. Where multiple paths are given below, settings from earlier paths override later ones.

(All) <repo>/.hg/hgrc

Per-repository configuration options that only apply in a particular repository. This file is not version-controlled, and will not get transferred during a "clone" operation. Options in this file override options in all other configuration files. On Plan 9 and Unix, most of this file will be ignored if it doesn't belong to a trusted user or to a trusted group. See the documentation for the [trusted] section below for more details.

(Plan 9) $home/lib/hgrc
(Unix) $HOME/.hgrc
(Windows) %USERPROFILE%\.hgrc
(Windows) %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini
(Windows) %HOME%\.hgrc
(Windows) %HOME%\Mercurial.ini

Per-user configuration file(s), for the user running Mercurial. On Windows 9x, %HOME% is replaced by %APPDATA%. Options in these files apply to all Mercurial commands executed by this user in any directory. Options in these files override per-system and per-installation options.

(Plan 9) /lib/mercurial/hgrc
(Plan 9) /lib/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc
(Unix) /etc/mercurial/hgrc
(Unix) /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc

Per-system configuration files, for the system on which Mercurial is running. Options in these files apply to all Mercurial commands executed by any user in any directory. Options in these files override per-installation options.

(Plan 9) <install-root>/lib/mercurial/hgrc
(Plan 9) <install-root>/lib/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc
(Unix) <install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc
(Unix) <install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc

Per-installation configuration files, searched for in the directory where Mercurial is installed. <install-root> is the parent directory of the hg executable (or symlink) being run. For example, if installed in /shared/tools/bin/hg, Mercurial will look in /shared/tools/etc/mercurial/hgrc. Options in these files apply to all Mercurial commands executed by any user in any directory.

(Windows) <install-dir>\Mercurial.ini or
(Windows) <install-dir>\hgrc.d\*.rc or
(Windows) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial

Per-installation/system configuration files, for the system on which Mercurial is running. Options in these files apply to all Mercurial commands executed by any user in any directory. Registry keys contain PATH-like strings, every part of which must reference a Mercurial.ini file or be a directory where *.rc files will be read. Mercurial checks each of these locations in the specified order until one or more configuration files are detected.

SYNTAX

A configuration file consists of sections, led by a [section] header and followed by name = value entries (sometimes called configuration keys):

[spam]
eggs=ham
green=
   eggs

Each line contains one entry. If the lines that follow are indented, they are treated as continuations of that entry. Leading whitespace is removed from values. Empty lines are skipped. Lines beginning with # or ; are ignored and may be used to provide comments.

Configuration keys can be set multiple times, in which case Mercurial will use the value that was configured last. As an example:

[spam]
eggs=large
ham=serrano
eggs=small

This would set the configuration key named eggs to small.

It is also possible to define a section multiple times. A section can be redefined on the same and/or on different configuration files. For example:

[foo]
eggs=large
ham=serrano
eggs=small
[bar]
eggs=ham
green=
   eggs
[foo]
ham=prosciutto
eggs=medium
bread=toasted

This would set the eggs, ham, and bread configuration keys of the foo section to medium, prosciutto, and toasted, respectively. As you can see there only thing that matters is the last value that was set for each of the configuration keys.

If a configuration key is set multiple times in different configuration files the final value will depend on the order in which the different configuration files are read, with settings from earlier paths overriding later ones as described on the Files section above.

A line of the form %include file will include file into the current configuration file. The inclusion is recursive, which means that included files can include other files. Filenames are relative to the configuration file in which the %include directive is found. Environment variables and ~user constructs are expanded in file. This lets you do something like:

%include ~/.hgrc.d/$HOST.rc

to include a different configuration file on each computer you use.

A line with %unset name will remove name from the current section, if it has been set previously.

The values are either free-form text strings, lists of text strings, or Boolean values. Boolean values can be set to true using any of "1", "yes", "true", or "on" and to false using "0", "no", "false", or "off" (all case insensitive).

List values are separated by whitespace or comma, except when values are placed in double quotation marks:

allow_read = "John Doe, PhD", brian, betty

Quotation marks can be escaped by prefixing them with a backslash. Only quotation marks at the beginning of a word is counted as a quotation (e.g., foo"bar baz is the list of foo"bar and baz).

SECTIONS

This section describes the different sections that may appear in a Mercurial configuration file, the purpose of each section, its possible keys, and their possible values.

  alias

Defines command aliases. Aliases allow you to define your own commands in terms of other commands (or aliases), optionally including arguments. Positional arguments in the form of $1, $2, etc in the alias definition are expanded by Mercurial before execution. Positional arguments not already used by $N in the definition are put at the end of the command to be executed.

Alias definitions consist of lines of the form:

<alias> = <command> [<argument>]...

For example, this definition:

latest = log --limit 5

creates a new command latest that shows only the five most recent changesets. You can define subsequent aliases using earlier ones:

stable5 = latest -b stable

Note
    It is possible to create aliases with the same names as existing commands, which will then override the original definitions. This is almost always a bad idea!

An alias can start with an exclamation point (!) to make it a shell alias. A shell alias is executed with the shell and will let you run arbitrary commands. As an example,

echo = !echo $@

will let you do hg echo foo to have foo printed in your terminal. A better example might be:

purge = !$HG status --no-status --unknown -0 | xargs -0 rm

which will make hg purge delete all unknown files in the repository in the same manner as the purge extension.

Positional arguments like $1, $2, etc. in the alias definition expand to the command arguments. Unmatched arguments are removed. $0 expands to the alias name and $@ expands to all arguments separated by a space. These expansions happen before the command is passed to the shell.

Shell aliases are executed in an environment where $HG expands to the path of the Mercurial that was used to execute the alias. This is useful when you want to call further Mercurial commands in a shell alias, as was done above for the purge alias. In addition, $HG_ARGS expands to the arguments given to Mercurial. In the hg echo foo call above, $HG_ARGS would expand to echo foo.

Note
    Some global configuration options such as -R are processed before shell aliases and will thus not be passed to aliases.

  annotate

Settings used when displaying file annotations. All values are Booleans and default to False. See diff section for related options for the diff command.

ignorews

    Ignore white space when comparing lines.

ignorewsamount

    Ignore changes in the amount of white space.

ignoreblanklines

    Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.

  auth

Authentication credentials for HTTP authentication. This section allows you to store usernames and passwords for use when logging into HTTP servers. See the [web] configuration section if you want to configure who can login to your HTTP server.

Each line has the following format:

<name>.<argument> = <value>

where <name> is used to group arguments into authentication entries. Example:

foo.prefix = hg.intevation.org/mercurial
foo.username = foo
foo.password = bar
foo.schemes = http https
bar.prefix = secure.example.org
bar.key = path/to/file.key
bar.cert = path/to/file.cert
bar.schemes = https

Supported arguments:

prefix

    Either * or a URI prefix with or without the scheme part. The authentication entry with the longest matching prefix is used (where * matches everything and counts as a match of length 1). If the prefix doesn't include a scheme, the match is performed against the URI with its scheme stripped as well, and the schemes argument, q.v., is then subsequently consulted.

username

    Optional. Username to authenticate with. If not given, and the remote site requires basic or digest authentication, the user will be prompted for it. Environment variables are expanded in the username letting you do foo.username = $USER. If the URI includes a username, only [auth] entries with a matching username or without a username will be considered.

password

    Optional. Password to authenticate with. If not given, and the remote site requires basic or digest authentication, the user will be prompted for it.

key

    Optional. PEM encoded client certificate key file. Environment variables are expanded in the filename.

cert

    Optional. PEM encoded client certificate chain file. Environment variables are expanded in the filename.

schemes

    Optional. Space separated list of URI schemes to use this authentication entry with. Only used if the prefix doesn't include a scheme. Supported schemes are http and https. They will match static-http and static-https respectively, as well. Default: https.

    If no suitable authentication entry is found, the user is prompted for credentials as usual if required by the remote.

  decode/encode

Filters for transforming files on checkout/checkin. This would typically be used for newline processing or other localization/canonicalization of files.

Filters consist of a filter pattern followed by a filter command. Filter patterns are globs by default, rooted at the repository root. For example, to match any file ending in .txt in the root directory only, use the pattern *.txt. To match any file ending in .c anywhere in the repository, use the pattern **.c. For each file only the first matching filter applies.

The filter command can start with a specifier, either pipe: or tempfile:. If no specifier is given, pipe: is used by default.

A pipe: command must accept data on stdin and return the transformed data on stdout.

Pipe example:

[encode]
# uncompress gzip files on checkin to improve delta compression
# note: not necessarily a good idea, just an example
*.gz = pipe: gunzip
[decode]
# recompress gzip files when writing them to the working dir (we
# can safely omit "pipe:", because it's the default)
*.gz = gzip

A tempfile: command is a template. The string INFILE is replaced with the name of a temporary file that contains the data to be filtered by the command. The string OUTFILE is replaced with the name of an empty temporary file, where the filtered data must be written by the command.

Note
    The tempfile mechanism is recommended for Windows systems, where the standard shell I/O redirection operators often have strange effects and may corrupt the contents of your files.

This filter mechanism is used internally by the eol extension to translate line ending characters between Windows (CRLF) and Unix (LF) format. We suggest you use the eol extension for convenience.

  defaults

(defaults are deprecated. Don't use them. Use aliases instead)

Use the [defaults] section to define command defaults, i.e. the default options/arguments to pass to the specified commands.

The following example makes hg log run in verbose mode, and hg status show only the modified files, by default:

[defaults]
log = -v
status = -m

The actual commands, instead of their aliases, must be used when defining command defaults. The command defaults will also be applied to the aliases of the commands defined.

  diff

Settings used when displaying diffs. Everything except for unified is a Boolean and defaults to False. See annotate section for related options for the annotate command.

git

    Use git extended diff format.

nodates

    Don't include dates in diff headers.

showfunc

    Show which function each change is in.

ignorews

    Ignore white space when comparing lines.

ignorewsamount

    Ignore changes in the amount of white space.

ignoreblanklines

    Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.

unified

    Number of lines of context to show.

  email

Settings for extensions that send email messages.

from

    Optional. Email address to use in "From" header and SMTP envelope of outgoing messages.

to

    Optional. Comma-separated list of recipients' email addresses.

cc

    Optional. Comma-separated list of carbon copy recipients' email addresses.

bcc

    Optional. Comma-separated list of blind carbon copy recipients' email addresses.

method

    Optional. Method to use to send email messages. If value is smtp (default), use SMTP (see the [smtp] section for configuration). Otherwise, use as name of program to run that acts like sendmail (takes -f option for sender, list of recipients on command line, message on stdin). Normally, setting this to sendmail or /usr/sbin/sendmail is enough to use sendmail to send messages.

charsets

    Optional. Comma-separated list of character sets considered convenient for recipients. Addresses, headers, and parts not containing patches of outgoing messages will be encoded in the first character set to which conversion from local encoding ($HGENCODING, ui.fallbackencoding) succeeds. If correct conversion fails, the text in question is sent as is. Defaults to empty (explicit) list.

    Order of outgoing email character sets:

1.  us-ascii: always first, regardless of settings

2.  email.charsets: in order given by user

3.  ui.fallbackencoding: if not in email.charsets

4.  $HGENCODING: if not in email.charsets

5.  utf-8: always last, regardless of settings

    Email example:

    [email]
    from = Joseph User <joe.user@example.com>
    method = /usr/sbin/sendmail
    # charsets for western Europeans
    # us-ascii, utf-8 omitted, as they are tried first and last
    charsets = iso-8859-1, iso-8859-15, windows-1252

  extensions

Mercurial has an extension mechanism for adding new features. To enable an extension, create an entry for it in this section.

If you know that the extension is already in Python's search path, you can give the name of the module, followed by =, with nothing after the =.

Otherwise, give a name that you choose, followed by =, followed by the path to the .py file (including the file name extension) that defines the extension.

To explicitly disable an extension that is enabled in an hgrc of broader scope, prepend its path with !, as in foo = !/ext/path or foo = ! when path is not supplied.

Example for ~/.hgrc:

[extensions]
# (the mq extension will get loaded from Mercurial's path)
mq =
# (this extension will get loaded from the file specified)
myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py

  format

usestore

    Enable or disable the "store" repository format which improves compatibility with systems that fold case or otherwise mangle filenames. Enabled by default. Disabling this option will allow you to store longer filenames in some situations at the expense of compatibility and ensures that the on-disk format of newly created repositories will be compatible with Mercurial before version 0.9.4.

usefncache

    Enable or disable the "fncache" repository format which enhances the "store" repository format (which has to be enabled to use fncache) to allow longer filenames and avoids using Windows reserved names, e.g. "nul". Enabled by default. Disabling this option ensures that the on-disk format of newly created repositories will be compatible with Mercurial before version 1.1.

dotencode

    Enable or disable the "dotencode" repository format which enhances the "fncache" repository format (which has to be enabled to use dotencode) to avoid issues with filenames starting with ._ on Mac OS X and spaces on Windows. Enabled by default. Disabling this option ensures that the on-disk format of newly created repositories will be compatible with Mercurial before version 1.7.

  graph

Web graph view configuration. This section let you change graph elements display properties by branches, for instance to make the default branch stand out.

Each line has the following format:

<branch>.<argument> = <value>

where <branch> is the name of the branch being customized. Example:

[graph]
# 2px width
default.width = 2
# red color
default.color = FF0000

Supported arguments:

width

    Set branch edges width in pixels.

color

    Set branch edges color in hexadecimal RGB notation.

  hooks

Commands or Python functions that get automatically executed by various actions such as starting or finishing a commit. Multiple hooks can be run for the same action by appending a suffix to the action. Overriding a site-wide hook can be done by changing its value or setting it to an empty string. Hooks can be prioritized by adding a prefix of priority to the hook name on a new line and setting the priority. The default priority is 0 if not specified.

Example .hg/hgrc:

[hooks]
# update working directory after adding changesets
changegroup.update = hg update
# do not use the site-wide hook
incoming =
incoming.email = /my/email/hook
incoming.autobuild = /my/build/hook
# force autobuild hook to run before other incoming hooks
priority.incoming.autobuild = 1

Most hooks are run with environment variables set that give useful additional information. For each hook below, the environment variables it is passed are listed with names of the form $HG_foo.

changegroup

    Run after a changegroup has been added via push, pull or unbundle. ID of the first new changeset is in $HG_NODE. URL from which changes came is in $HG_URL.

commit

    Run after a changeset has been created in the local repository. ID of the newly created changeset is in $HG_NODE. Parent changeset IDs are in $HG_PARENT1 and $HG_PARENT2.

incoming

    Run after a changeset has been pulled, pushed, or unbundled into the local repository. The ID of the newly arrived changeset is in $HG_NODE. URL that was source of changes came is in $HG_URL.

outgoing

    Run after sending changes from local repository to another. ID of first changeset sent is in $HG_NODE. Source of operation is in $HG_SOURCE; see "preoutgoing" hook for description.

post-<command>

    Run after successful invocations of the associated command. The contents of the command line are passed as $HG_ARGS and the result code in $HG_RESULT. Parsed command line arguments are passed as $HG_PATS and $HG_OPTS. These contain string representations of the python data internally passed to <command>. $HG_OPTS is a dictionary of options (with unspecified options set to their defaults). $HG_PATS is a list of arguments. Hook failure is ignored.

pre-<command>

    Run before executing the associated command. The contents of the command line are passed as $HG_ARGS. Parsed command line arguments are passed as $HG_PATS and $HG_OPTS. These contain string representations of the data internally passed to <command>. $HG_OPTS is a dictionary of options (with unspecified options set to their defaults). $HG_PATS is a list of arguments. If the hook returns failure, the command doesn't execute and Mercurial returns the failure code.

prechangegroup

    Run before a changegroup is added via push, pull or unbundle. Exit status 0 allows the changegroup to proceed. Non-zero status will cause the push, pull or unbundle to fail. URL from which changes will come is in $HG_URL.

precommit

    Run before starting a local commit. Exit status 0 allows the commit to proceed. Non-zero status will cause the commit to fail. Parent changeset IDs are in $HG_PARENT1 and $HG_PARENT2.

prelistkeys

    Run before listing pushkeys (like bookmarks) in the repository. Non-zero status will cause failure. The key namespace is in $HG_NAMESPACE.

preoutgoing

    Run before collecting changes to send from the local repository to another. Non-zero status will cause failure. This lets you prevent pull over HTTP or SSH. Also prevents against local pull, push (outbound) or bundle commands, but not effective, since you can just copy files instead then. Source of operation is in $HG_SOURCE. If "serve", operation is happening on behalf of remote SSH or HTTP repository. If "push", "pull" or "bundle", operation is happening on behalf of repository on same system.

prepushkey

    Run before a pushkey (like a bookmark) is added to the repository. Non-zero status will cause the key to be rejected. The key namespace is in $HG_NAMESPACE, the key is in $HG_KEY, the old value (if any) is in $HG_OLD, and the new value is in $HG_NEW.

pretag

    Run before creating a tag. Exit status 0 allows the tag to be created. Non-zero status will cause the tag to fail. ID of changeset to tag is in $HG_NODE. Name of tag is in $HG_TAG. Tag is local if $HG_LOCAL=1, in repository if $HG_LOCAL=0.

pretxnchangegroup

    Run after a changegroup has been added via push, pull or unbundle, but before the transaction has been committed. Changegroup is visible to hook program. This lets you validate incoming changes before accepting them. Passed the ID of the first new changeset in $HG_NODE. Exit status 0 allows the transaction to commit. Non-zero status will cause the transaction to be rolled back and the push, pull or unbundle will fail. URL that was source of changes is in $HG_URL.

pretxncommit

    Run after a changeset has been created but the transaction not yet committed. Changeset is visible to hook program. This lets you validate commit message and changes. Exit status 0 allows the commit to proceed. Non-zero status will cause the transaction to be rolled back. ID of changeset is in $HG_NODE. Parent changeset IDs are in $HG_PARENT1 and $HG_PARENT2.

preupdate

    Run before updating the working directory. Exit status 0 allows the update to proceed. Non-zero status will prevent the update. Changeset ID of first new parent is in $HG_PARENT1. If merge, ID of second new parent is in $HG_PARENT2.

listkeys

    Run after listing pushkeys (like bookmarks) in the repository. The key namespace is in $HG_NAMESPACE. $HG_VALUES is a dictionary containing the keys and values.

pushkey

    Run after a pushkey (like a bookmark) is added to the repository. The key namespace is in $HG_NAMESPACE, the key is in $HG_KEY, the old value (if any) is in $HG_OLD, and the new value is in $HG_NEW.

tag

    Run after a tag is created. ID of tagged changeset is in $HG_NODE. Name of tag is in $HG_TAG. Tag is local if $HG_LOCAL=1, in repository if $HG_LOCAL=0.

update

    Run after updating the working directory. Changeset ID of first new parent is in $HG_PARENT1. If merge, ID of second new parent is in $HG_PARENT2. If the update succeeded, $HG_ERROR=0. If the update failed (e.g. because conflicts not resolved), $HG_ERROR=1.

Note
    It is generally better to use standard hooks rather than the generic pre- and post- command hooks as they are guaranteed to be called in the appropriate contexts for influencing transactions. Also, hooks like "commit" will be called in all contexts that generate a commit (e.g. tag) and not just the commit command.

Note
    Environment variables with empty values may not be passed to hooks on platforms such as Windows. As an example, $HG_PARENT2 will have an empty value under Unix-like platforms for non-merge changesets, while it will not be available at all under Windows.

The syntax for Python hooks is as follows:

hookname = python:modulename.submodule.callable
hookname = python:/path/to/python/module.py:callable

Python hooks are run within the Mercurial process. Each hook is called with at least three keyword arguments: a ui object (keyword ui), a repository object (keyword repo), and a hooktype keyword that tells what kind of hook is used. Arguments listed as environment variables above are passed as keyword arguments, with no HG_ prefix, and names in lower case.

If a Python hook returns a "true" value or raises an exception, this is treated as a failure.

  hostfingerprints

Fingerprints of the certificates of known HTTPS servers. A HTTPS connection to a server with a fingerprint configured here will only succeed if the servers certificate matches the fingerprint. This is very similar to how ssh known hosts works. The fingerprint is the SHA-1 hash value of the DER encoded certificate. The CA chain and web.cacerts is not used for servers with a fingerprint.

For example:

[hostfingerprints]
hg.intevation.org = 38:76:52:7c:87:26:9a:8f:4a:f8:d3:de:08:45:3b:ea:d6:4b:ee:cc

This feature is only supported when using Python 2.6 or later.

  http_proxy

Used to access web-based Mercurial repositories through a HTTP proxy.

host

    Host name and (optional) port of the proxy server, for example "myproxy:8000".

no

    Optional. Comma-separated list of host names that should bypass the proxy.

passwd

    Optional. Password to authenticate with at the proxy server.

user

    Optional. User name to authenticate with at the proxy server.

always

    Optional. Always use the proxy, even for localhost and any entries in http_proxy.no. True or False. Default: False.

  merge-patterns

This section specifies merge tools to associate with particular file patterns. Tools matched here will take precedence over the default merge tool. Patterns are globs by default, rooted at the repository root.

Example:

[merge-patterns]
**.c = kdiff3
**.jpg = myimgmerge

  merge-tools

This section configures external merge tools to use for file-level merges.

Example ~/.hgrc:

[merge-tools]
# Override stock tool location
kdiff3.executable = ~/bin/kdiff3
# Specify command line
kdiff3.args = $base $local $other -o $output
# Give higher priority
kdiff3.priority = 1
# Define new tool
myHtmlTool.args = -m $local $other $base $output
myHtmlTool.regkey = Software\FooSoftware\HtmlMerge
myHtmlTool.priority = 1

Supported arguments:

priority

    The priority in which to evaluate this tool. Default: 0.

executable

    Either just the name of the executable or its pathname. On Windows, the path can use environment variables with ${ProgramFiles} syntax. Default: the tool name.

args

    The arguments to pass to the tool executable. You can refer to the files being merged as well as the output file through these variables: $base, $local, $other, $output. Default: $local $base $other

premerge

    Attempt to run internal non-interactive 3-way merge tool before launching external tool. Options are true, false, or keep to leave markers in the file if the premerge fails. Default: True

binary

    This tool can merge binary files. Defaults to False, unless tool was selected by file pattern match.

symlink

    This tool can merge symlinks. Defaults to False, even if tool was selected by file pattern match.

check

    A list of merge success-checking options:

changed

    Ask whether merge was successful when the merged file shows no changes.

conflicts

    Check whether there are conflicts even though the tool reported success.

prompt

    Always prompt for merge success, regardless of success reported by tool.

fixeol

    Attempt to fix up EOL changes caused by the merge tool. Default: False

gui

    This tool requires a graphical interface to run. Default: False

regkey

    Windows registry key which describes install location of this tool. Mercurial will search for this key first under HKEY_CURRENT_USER and then under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Default: None

regkeyalt

    An alternate Windows registry key to try if the first key is not found. The alternate key uses the same regname and regappend semantics of the primary key. The most common use for this key is to search for 32bit applications on 64bit operating systems. Default: None

regname

    Name of value to read from specified registry key. Defaults to the unnamed (default) value.

regappend

    String to append to the value read from the registry, typically the executable name of the tool. Default: None

  patch

Settings used when applying patches, for instance through the 'import' command or with Mercurial Queues extension.

eol

    When set to 'strict' patch content and patched files end of lines are preserved. When set to lf or crlf, both files end of lines are ignored when patching and the result line endings are normalized to either LF (Unix) or CRLF (Windows). When set to auto, end of lines are again ignored while patching but line endings in patched files are normalized to their original setting on a per-file basis. If target file does not exist or has no end of line, patch line endings are preserved. Default: strict.

  paths

Assigns symbolic names to repositories. The left side is the symbolic name, and the right gives the directory or URL that is the location of the repository. Default paths can be declared by setting the following entries.

default

    Directory or URL to use when pulling if no source is specified. Default is set to repository from which the current repository was cloned.

default-push

    Optional. Directory or URL to use when pushing if no destination is specified.

    Custom paths can be defined by assigning the path to a name that later can be used from the command line. Example:

    [paths]
    my_path = http://example.com/path

    To push to the path defined in my_path run the command:

    hg push my_path

  phases

Specifies default handling of phases. See hg help phases for more information about working with phases.

publish

    Controls draft phase behavior when working as a server. When true, pushed changesets are set to public in both client and server and pulled or cloned changesets are set to public in the client. Default: True

new-commit

    Phase of newly-created commits. Default: draft

  profiling

Specifies profiling type, format, and file output. Two profilers are supported: an instrumenting profiler (named ls), and a sampling profiler (named stat).

In this section description, 'profiling data' stands for the raw data collected during profiling, while 'profiling report' stands for a statistical text report generated from the profiling data. The profiling is done using lsprof.

type

    The type of profiler to use. Default: ls.

ls

    Use Python's built-in instrumenting profiler. This profiler works on all platforms, but each line number it reports is the first line of a function. This restriction makes it difficult to identify the expensive parts of a non-trivial function.

stat

    Use a third-party statistical profiler, statprof. This profiler currently runs only on Unix systems, and is most useful for profiling commands that run for longer than about 0.1 seconds.

format

    Profiling format. Specific to the ls instrumenting profiler. Default: text.

text

    Generate a profiling report. When saving to a file, it should be noted that only the report is saved, and the profiling data is not kept.

kcachegrind

    Format profiling data for kcachegrind use: when saving to a file, the generated file can directly be loaded into kcachegrind.

frequency

    Sampling frequency. Specific to the stat sampling profiler. Default: 1000.

output

    File path where profiling data or report should be saved. If the file exists, it is replaced. Default: None, data is printed on stderr

sort

    Sort field. Specific to the ls instrumenting profiler. One of callcount, reccallcount, totaltime and inlinetime. Default: inlinetime.

nested

    Show at most this number of lines of drill-down info in a tree structure after each main entry. This can help explain the difference between Total and Inline. Specific to the ls instrumenting profiler. Default: 5.

  revsetalias

Alias definitions for revsets. See hg help revsets for details.

  server

Controls generic server settings.

uncompressed

    Whether to allow clients to clone a repository using the uncompressed streaming protocol. This transfers about 40% more data than a regular clone, but uses less memory and CPU on both server and client. Over a LAN (100 Mbps or better) or a very fast WAN, an uncompressed streaming clone is a lot faster (~10x) than a regular clone. Over most WAN connections (anything slower than about 6 Mbps), uncompressed streaming is slower, because of the extra data transfer overhead. This mode will also temporarily hold the write lock while determining what data to transfer. Default is True.

preferuncompressed

    When set, clients will try to use the uncompressed streaming protocol. Default is False.

validate

    Whether to validate the completeness of pushed changesets by checking that all new file revisions specified in manifests are present. Default is False.

  smtp

Configuration for extensions that need to send email messages.

host

    Host name of mail server, e.g. "mail.example.com".

port

    Optional. Port to connect to on mail server. Default: 25.

tls

    Optional. Method to enable TLS when connecting to mail server: starttls, smtps or none. Default: none.

username

    Optional. User name for authenticating with the SMTP server. Default: none.

password

    Optional. Password for authenticating with the SMTP server. If not specified, interactive sessions will prompt the user for a password; non-interactive sessions will fail. Default: none.

local_hostname

    Optional. It's the hostname that the sender can use to identify itself to the MTA.

  subpaths

Subrepository source URLs can go stale if a remote server changes name or becomes temporarily unavailable. This section lets you define rewrite rules of the form:

<pattern> = <replacement>

where pattern is a regular expression matching a subrepository source URL and replacement is the replacement string used to rewrite it. Groups can be matched in pattern and referenced in replacements. For instance:

http://server/(.*)-hg/ = http://hg.server/\1/

rewrites http://server/foo-hg/ into http://hg.server/foo/.

Relative subrepository paths are first made absolute, and the rewrite rules are then applied on the full (absolute) path. The rules are applied in definition order.

  trusted

Mercurial will not use the settings in the .hg/hgrc file from a repository if it doesn't belong to a trusted user or to a trusted group, as various hgrc features allow arbitrary commands to be run. This issue is often encountered when configuring hooks or extensions for shared repositories or servers. However, the web interface will use some safe settings from the [web] section.

This section specifies what users and groups are trusted. The current user is always trusted. To trust everybody, list a user or a group with name *. These settings must be placed in an already-trusted file to take effect, such as $HOME/.hgrc of the user or service running Mercurial.

users

    Comma-separated list of trusted users.

groups

    Comma-separated list of trusted groups.

  ui

User interface controls.

archivemeta

    Whether to include the .hg_archival.txt file containing meta data (hashes for the repository base and for tip) in archives created by the hg archive command or downloaded via hgweb. Default is True.

askusername

    Whether to prompt for a username when committing. If True, and neither $HGUSER nor $EMAIL has been specified, then the user will be prompted to enter a username. If no username is entered, the default USER@HOST is used instead. Default is False.

commitsubrepos

    Whether to commit modified subrepositories when committing the parent repository. If False and one subrepository has uncommitted changes, abort the commit. Default is False.

debug

    Print debugging information. True or False. Default is False.

editor

    The editor to use during a commit. Default is $EDITOR or vi.

fallbackencoding

    Encoding to try if it's not possible to decode the changelog using UTF-8. Default is ISO-8859-1.

ignore

    A file to read per-user ignore patterns from. This file should be in the same format as a repository-wide .hgignore file. This option supports hook syntax, so if you want to specify multiple ignore files, you can do so by setting something like ignore.other = ~/.hgignore2. For details of the ignore file format, see the hgignore(5) man page.

interactive

    Allow to prompt the user. True or False. Default is True.

logtemplate

    Template string for commands that print changesets.

merge

    The conflict resolution program to use during a manual merge. For more information on merge tools see hg help merge-tools. For configuring merge tools see the [merge-tools] section.

portablefilenames

    Check for portable filenames. Can be warn, ignore or abort. Default is warn. If set to warn (or true), a warning message is printed on POSIX platforms, if a file with a non-portable filename is added (e.g. a file with a name that can't be created on Windows because it contains reserved parts like AUX, reserved characters like :, or would cause a case collision with an existing file). If set to ignore (or false), no warning is printed. If set to abort, the command is aborted. On Windows, this configuration option is ignored and the command aborted.

quiet

    Reduce the amount of output printed. True or False. Default is False.

remotecmd

    remote command to use for clone/push/pull operations. Default is hg.

reportoldssl

    Warn if an SSL certificate is unable to be due to using Python 2.5 or earlier. True or False. Default is True.

report_untrusted

    Warn if a .hg/hgrc file is ignored due to not being owned by a trusted user or group. True or False. Default is True.

slash

    Display paths using a slash (/) as the path separator. This only makes a difference on systems where the default path separator is not the slash character (e.g. Windows uses the backslash character (\)). Default is False.

ssh

    command to use for SSH connections. Default is ssh.

strict

    Require exact command names, instead of allowing unambiguous abbreviations. True or False. Default is False.

style

    Name of style to use for command output.

timeout

    The timeout used when a lock is held (in seconds), a negative value means no timeout. Default is 600.

traceback

    Mercurial always prints a traceback when an unknown exception occurs. Setting this to True will make Mercurial print a traceback on all exceptions, even those recognized by Mercurial (such as IOError or MemoryError). Default is False.

username

    The committer of a changeset created when running "commit". Typically a person's name and email address, e.g. Fred Widget <fred@example.com>. Default is $EMAIL or username@hostname. If the username in hgrc is empty, it has to be specified manually or in a different hgrc file (e.g. $HOME/.hgrc, if the admin set username = in the system hgrc). Environment variables in the username are expanded.

verbose

    Increase the amount of output printed. True or False. Default is False.

  web

Web interface configuration. The settings in this section apply to both the builtin webserver (started by hg serve) and the script you run through a webserver (hgweb.cgi and the derivatives for FastCGI and WSGI).

The Mercurial webserver does no authentication (it does not prompt for usernames and passwords to validate who users are), but it does do authorization (it grants or denies access for authenticated users based on settings in this section). You must either configure your webserver to do authentication for you, or disable the authorization checks.

For a quick setup in a trusted environment, e.g., a private LAN, where you want it to accept pushes from anybody, you can use the following command line:

$ hg --config web.allow_push=* --config web.push_ssl=False serve

Note that this will allow anybody to push anything to the server and that this should not be used for public servers.

The full set of options is:

accesslog

    Where to output the access log. Default is stdout.

address

    Interface address to bind to. Default is all.

allow_archive

    List of archive format (bz2, gz, zip) allowed for downloading. Default is empty.

allowbz2

    (DEPRECATED) Whether to allow .tar.bz2 downloading of repository revisions. Default is False.

allowgz

    (DEPRECATED) Whether to allow .tar.gz downloading of repository revisions. Default is False.

allowpull

    Whether to allow pulling from the repository. Default is True.

allow_push

    Whether to allow pushing to the repository. If empty or not set, push is not allowed. If the special value *, any remote user can push, including unauthenticated users. Otherwise, the remote user must have been authenticated, and the authenticated user name must be present in this list. The contents of the allow_push list are examined after the deny_push list.

allow_read

    If the user has not already been denied repository access due to the contents of deny_read, this list determines whether to grant repository access to the user. If this list is not empty, and the user is unauthenticated or not present in the list, then access is denied for the user. If the list is empty or not set, then access is permitted to all users by default. Setting allow_read to the special value * is equivalent to it not being set (i.e. access is permitted to all users). The contents of the allow_read list are examined after the deny_read list.

allowzip

    (DEPRECATED) Whether to allow .zip downloading of repository revisions. Default is False. This feature creates temporary files.

archivesubrepos

    Whether to recurse into subrepositories when archiving. Default is False.

baseurl

    Base URL to use when publishing URLs in other locations, so third-party tools like email notification hooks can construct URLs. Example: http://hgserver/repos/.

cacerts

    Path to file containing a list of PEM encoded certificate authority certificates. Environment variables and ~user constructs are expanded in the filename. If specified on the client, then it will verify the identity of remote HTTPS servers with these certificates.

    This feature is only supported when using Python 2.6 or later. If you wish to use it with earlier versions of Python, install the backported version of the ssl library that is available from http://pypi.python.org.

    To disable SSL verification temporarily, specify --insecure from command line.

    You can use OpenSSL's CA certificate file if your platform has one. On most Linux systems this will be /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt. Otherwise you will have to generate this file manually. The form must be as follows:

    -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
    ... (certificate in base64 PEM encoding) ...
    -----END CERTIFICATE-----
    -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
    ... (certificate in base64 PEM encoding) ...
    -----END CERTIFICATE-----

cache

    Whether to support caching in hgweb. Defaults to True.

collapse

    With descend enabled, repositories in subdirectories are shown at a single level alongside repositories in the current path. With collapse also enabled, repositories residing at a deeper level than the current path are grouped behind navigable directory entries that lead to the locations of these repositories. In effect, this setting collapses each collection of repositories found within a subdirectory into a single entry for that subdirectory. Default is False.

comparisoncontext

    Number of lines of context to show in side-by-side file comparison. If negative or the value full, whole files are shown. Default is 5. This setting can be overridden by a context request parameter to the comparison command, taking the same values.

contact

    Name or email address of the person in charge of the repository. Defaults to ui.username or $EMAIL or "unknown" if unset or empty.

deny_push

    Whether to deny pushing to the repository. If empty or not set, push is not denied. If the special value *, all remote users are denied push. Otherwise, unauthenticated users are all denied, and any authenticated user name present in this list is also denied. The contents of the deny_push list are examined before the allow_push list.

deny_read

    Whether to deny reading/viewing of the repository. If this list is not empty, unauthenticated users are all denied, and any authenticated user name present in this list is also denied access to the repository. If set to the special value *, all remote users are denied access (rarely needed ;). If deny_read is empty or not set, the determination of repository access depends on the presence and content of the allow_read list (see description). If both deny_read and allow_read are empty or not set, then access is permitted to all users by default. If the repository is being served via hgwebdir, denied users will not be able to see it in the list of repositories. The contents of the deny_read list have priority over (are examined before) the contents of the allow_read list.

descend

    hgwebdir indexes will not descend into subdirectories. Only repositories directly in the current path will be shown (other repositories are still available from the index corresponding to their containing path).

description

    Textual description of the repository's purpose or contents. Default is "unknown".

encoding

    Character encoding name. Default is the current locale charset. Example: "UTF-8"

errorlog

    Where to output the error log. Default is stderr.

guessmime

    Control MIME types for raw download of file content. Set to True to let hgweb guess the content type from the file extension. This will serve HTML files as text/html and might allow cross-site scripting attacks when serving untrusted repositories. Default is False.

hidden

    Whether to hide the repository in the hgwebdir index. Default is False.

ipv6

    Whether to use IPv6. Default is False.

logoimg

    File name of the logo image that some templates display on each page. The file name is relative to staticurl. That is, the full path to the logo image is "staticurl/logoimg". If unset, hglogo.png will be used.

logourl

    Base URL to use for logos. If unset, http://mercurial.selenic.com/ will be used.

maxchanges

    Maximum number of changes to list on the changelog. Default is 10.

maxfiles

    Maximum number of files to list per changeset. Default is 10.

maxshortchanges

    Maximum number of changes to list on the shortlog, graph or filelog pages. Default is 60.

name

    Repository name to use in the web interface. Default is current working directory.

port

    Port to listen on. Default is 8000.

prefix

    Prefix path to serve from. Default is '' (server root).

push_ssl

    Whether to require that inbound pushes be transported over SSL to prevent password sniffing. Default is True.

staticurl

    Base URL to use for static files. If unset, static files (e.g. the hgicon.png favicon) will be served by the CGI script itself. Use this setting to serve them directly with the HTTP server. Example: http://hgserver/static/.

stripes

    How many lines a "zebra stripe" should span in multi-line output. Default is 1; set to 0 to disable.

style

    Which template map style to use.

templates

    Where to find the HTML templates. Default is install path.

AUTHOR

Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>.

Mercurial was written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>.

SEE ALSO

hg(1), hgignore(5)

COPYING

This manual page is copyright 2005 Bryan O'Sullivan. Mercurial is copyright 2005-2012 Matt Mackall. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

AUTHOR
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> Organization: Mercurial