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2 Path to the 'hg' executable, automatically passed when running
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3 hooks, extensions or external tools. If unset or empty, this is
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4 the hg executable's name if it's frozen, or an executable named
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5 'hg' (with %PATHEXT% [defaulting to COM/EXE/BAT/CMD] extensions on
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6 Windows) is searched.
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8 HGEDITOR
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9 This is the name of the editor to run when committing. See EDITOR.
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11 (deprecated, use configuration file)
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13 HGENCODING
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14 This overrides the default locale setting detected by Mercurial.
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15 This setting is used to convert data including usernames,
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16 changeset descriptions, tag names, and branches. This setting can
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17 be overridden with the --encoding command-line option.
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19 HGENCODINGMODE
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20 This sets Mercurial's behavior for handling unknown characters
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21 while transcoding user input. The default is "strict", which
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22 causes Mercurial to abort if it can't map a character. Other
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23 settings include "replace", which replaces unknown characters, and
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24 "ignore", which drops them. This setting can be overridden with
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25 the --encodingmode command-line option.
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27 HGENCODINGAMBIGUOUS
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28 This sets Mercurial's behavior for handling characters with
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29 "ambiguous" widths like accented Latin characters with East Asian
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30 fonts. By default, Mercurial assumes ambiguous characters are
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31 narrow, set this variable to "wide" if such characters cause
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32 formatting problems.
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34 HGMERGE
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35 An executable to use for resolving merge conflicts. The program
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36 will be executed with three arguments: local file, remote file,
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37 ancestor file.
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41 HGRCPATH
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42 A list of files or directories to search for configuration
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43 files. Item separator is ":" on Unix, ";" on Windows. If HGRCPATH
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44 is not set, platform default search path is used. If empty, only
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45 the .hg/hgrc from the current repository is read.
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47 For each element in HGRCPATH:
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52 HGPLAIN
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57 in the face of existing user configuration.
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59 Equivalent options set via command line flags or environment
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62 HGUSER
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63 This is the string used as the author of a commit. If not set,
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64 available values will be considered in this order:
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69 - interactive prompt
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80 VISUAL
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81 This is the name of the editor to use when committing. See EDITOR.
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83 EDITOR
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85 user to modify, for example when writing commit messages. The
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87 variables HGEDITOR, VISUAL and EDITOR, in that order. The first
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88 non-empty one is chosen. If all of them are empty, the editor
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91 PYTHONPATH
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93 set appropriately if this Mercurial is not installed system-wide.