Re: diff settings

From: Keith Cascio <keith@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Jan 31, 2009, 23:10 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901311507350.10805@kiwi.cs.ucla.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4984AACD.20600@tedpavlic.com>

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Ted Pavlic wrote:

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

Yes I remember you did mention that.

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> 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.

I like it! I'm all for it. Perfect opportunity for future work. In fact, I think I already glanced at the part of the code that's the right place to make that stuff happen.

                                      -- Keith