diff -r fe5202bef5ce -r 945c9816ec1d mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py
--- a/mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py	Fri Jun 30 03:45:50 2017 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py	Fri Jun 30 03:45:51 2017 +0200
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
         encoding.encoding = self.ui.config('web', 'encoding')
         self.style = self.ui.config('web', 'style', 'paper')
         self.templatepath = self.ui.config('web', 'templates', None)
-        self.stripecount = self.ui.config('web', 'stripes', 1)
+        self.stripecount = self.ui.config('web', 'stripes')
         if self.stripecount:
             self.stripecount = int(self.stripecount)
         self._baseurl = self.ui.config('web', 'baseurl')