The code and the help still says that it will read hgrc.d next to the
executable. But this directory needs to exist to read the resource based config
files. Otherwise even hg version errors out:
$ /c/Program\ Files/Mercurial/hg.exe version Traceback (most recent call last): File "hg", line 43, in <module> File "mercurial\dispatch.pyc", line 110, in run File "mercurial\dispatch.pyc", line 226, in dispatch File "mercurial\ui.pyc", line 308, in load File "mercurial\rcutil.pyc", line 99, in rccomponents File "mercurial\rcutil.pyc", line 69, in default_rc_resources File "mercurial\utils\resourceutil.pyc", line 84, in contents WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'c:\\Program Files\\mercurial\\defaultrc\\*.*'