--- a/mercurial/chgserver.py	Wed Jan 29 16:04:39 2025 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/chgserver.py	Wed Jan 29 16:09:06 2025 -0500
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@
 
     # command line args
     options = dispatch._earlyparseopts(newui, args)
+    dispatch._parse_config_files(newui, args, options[b'config_file'])
     dispatch._parseconfig(newui, options[b'config'])
 
     # stolen from tortoisehg.util.copydynamicconfig()