By default, Mercurial is very minimal:
You can solve all of these problems easily by simply setting up a .hgrc file. However, setting all these things up yourself is a lot of busy work. You could do most of it with copy and paste, but there are some things that you need to fill in yourself (such as your name), and that makes for a long set of instructions.
configure-hgrc automates the busy work. It asks you the questions that you need to answer, and creates a .hgrc file in your home directory with your answers filled in and all the most useful plug-ins turned on.
NOTE: Even with the hgkeychain extension, Mercurial does not save your SMTP password to the Keychain; configure-hgrc puts it in your ~/.hgrc file. Be careful with where else you put that file. Alternatively, you may wish to leave the password empty and simply enter your password every time you mail a patch.
MD5 and SHA1 signatures were created using EasyHash.
If you want to contribute bug-fixes or enhancements to configure-hgrc, the easiest way to do that is to clone the Mercurial repository for configure-hgrc. To do this, type this command into a terminal:
hg clone http://bitbucket.org/boredzo/configure-hgrc
I provide configure-hgrc—the application, and its source code—under a BSD license. For more information, see the file named LICENSE.txt that comes with it.
2008-09-27 http://boredzo.org/configure-hgrc |