Re: diff settings

From: Ted Pavlic <ted@tedpavlic.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2009, 19:47 UTC
Message-ID: <4984AACD.20600@tedpavlic.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901310750470.5437@kiwi.cs.ucla.edu>

> Thank you for alerting us to the Hg design.  I can appreciate the elegance of
> it, and I'm always in favor of the most general possible implementation.  But
> there is a subtle difference between diff.primer and primer.diff.

As I already discussed, Mercurial has both "diff.primer" and "primer.diff" precisely because "diff" settings affects so many Hg commands.

In particular, in my .hgrc, I have:

[diff] git = 1

which causes all Mercurial commands that need to generate a diff to use gitdiff rather than truediff. However, if I *wanted* to apply a set of flags to a particular command, I could (using the equivalent "git" commands)...

[defaults] pull = --rebase commit = -a format-patch = -M

So I see a purpose for both *.defaults and defaults.*. Of course, aliases are also nice (IIRC, Mercurial doesn't have "aliases", but I could be wrong). Mercurial users are very happy with having both available. I imagine git people would be too.

--Ted

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