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Differential D7693

help: clarify that the Windows registry key for hgrc files is systemwide
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Authored by mharbison72 on Dec 17 2019, 10:49 PM.

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rHG14d282b57e24: help: clarify that the Windows registry key for hgrc files is systemwide

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Since there's no version or path info here to distinguish between installations,
it is effectively systemwide (unless splitting hairs about the WoW64 registry
redirection).

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mharbison72 created this revision.Dec 17 2019, 10:49 PM

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mharbison72 added a child revision: D7694: help: drop a reference to Windows 9x.Dec 17 2019, 10:49 PM

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mharbison72 added a commit: rHG14d282b57e24: help: clarify that the Windows registry key for hgrc files is systemwide.Dec 23 2019, 12:27 PM

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			Path	Packages
M			mercurial/helptext/config.txt (2 lines)

Status	Author	Revision
Closed	mharbison72	D7694 help: drop a reference to Windows 9x
Closed	mharbison72	D7693 help: clarify that the Windows registry key for hgrc files is systemwide
Closed	mharbison72	D7692 windows: add a global equivalent to /etc/mercurial for *.rc processing
Closed	mharbison72	D7691 windows: factor the hgrc directory scan into a function
Closed	mharbison72	D7690 windows: don't return early from building the hgrc search path
Closed	mharbison72	D7689 windows: clarify a comment about the hgrc search path
Closed	mharbison72	D7688 windows: drop detection of Windows 95/98/ME

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mercurial/helptext/config.txt


	On Windows, the following files are consulted:			On Windows, the following files are consulted:

	- ``<repo>/.hg/hgrc`` (per-repository)			- ``<repo>/.hg/hgrc`` (per-repository)
	- ``%USERPROFILE%\.hgrc`` (per-user)			- ``%USERPROFILE%\.hgrc`` (per-user)
	- ``%USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini`` (per-user)			- ``%USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini`` (per-user)
	- ``%HOME%\.hgrc`` (per-user)			- ``%HOME%\.hgrc`` (per-user)
	- ``%HOME%\Mercurial.ini`` (per-user)			- ``%HOME%\Mercurial.ini`` (per-user)
	- ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial`` (per-installation)			- ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial`` (per-system)
	- ``<install-dir>\hgrc.d\*.rc`` (per-installation)			- ``<install-dir>\hgrc.d\*.rc`` (per-installation)
	- ``<install-dir>\Mercurial.ini`` (per-installation)			- ``<install-dir>\Mercurial.ini`` (per-installation)
	- ``%PROGRAMDATA%\Mercurial\hgrc`` (per-system)			- ``%PROGRAMDATA%\Mercurial\hgrc`` (per-system)
	- ``%PROGRAMDATA%\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini`` (per-system)			- ``%PROGRAMDATA%\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini`` (per-system)
	- ``%PROGRAMDATA%\Mercurial\hgrc.d\*.rc`` (per-system)			- ``%PROGRAMDATA%\Mercurial\hgrc.d\*.rc`` (per-system)
	- ``<internal>/*.rc`` (defaults)			- ``<internal>/*.rc`` (defaults)

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Diff 2	18911	rHG14d282b57e2496fa2a5660cbdf6b4bc40f3b908d	Dec 17 2019, 10:33 PM	★	★