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discovery: improve "note: unsynced remote changes!" warning This note (which actually is a warning) frequently caused confusion. "unsynced" is not a well established user-facing concept in Mercurial and the message was not very specific or helpful. Instead, show a messages like: remote has heads on branch 'default' that are not known locally: 6c0482d977a3 and show it before aborting on "push creates new remote head". This will also give more of a hint in the case where the branch has been closed remotely and 'hg heads' thus not would show any new heads after pulling. A similar (but actually very different) message was addressed in 6b618aa08b6e.
author Mads Kiilerich <madski@unity3d.com>
date Thu, 06 Feb 2014 02:19:38 +0100
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Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.

To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::

  [extensions]
  foo =

You may also specify the full path to an extension::

  [extensions]
  myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py

See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files.

Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such
as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready
for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock
Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.

To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::

  [extensions]
  # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
  bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
  # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
  baz = !