I am trying to go though this tutorial that says:
Enable SSH compression for Mercurial
Edit the Mercurial global configuration file (~/.hgrc). Add the following line to the UI section:
ssh = ssh -C
But there is no that file in my system. HG of course is installed.
See hg help templates for details. Mercurial will not use the settings in the .hg/hgrc file from a repository if it doesn't belong to a trusted user or to a trusted group, as various hgrc features allow arbitrary commands to be run. This issue is often encountered when configuring hooks or extensions for shared repositories or servers.
For example, if installed in /shared/tools/bin/hg, Mercurial will look in /shared/tools/etc/mercurial/hgrc. Options in these files apply to all Mercurial commands executed by any user in any directory.
Mercurial reads configuration data from several files, if they exist. These files do not exist by default and you will have to create the appropriate configuration files yourself: Local configuration is put into the per-repository /.hg/hgrc file.
The contents of the command line are passed as $HG_ARGS. If the hook returns failure, the command doesn't execute and Mercurial returns the failure code. Run before a changegroup is added via push, pull or unbundle. Exit status 0 allows the changegroup to proceed. Non-zero status will cause the push, pull or unbundle to fail.
It is not there by default. You don't need it to exist — it just can exist to customize how you use Mercurial. You just need to create a .hgrc
file in your home directory and it should work.
Heres a great intro post: http://hgtip.com/tips/beginner/2009-09-30-configuring-mercurial
Snagged from the manpages at https://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html.
Files
Mercurial reads configuration data from several files, if they exist. These files do not exist by default and you will have to create the appropriate configuration files yourself:
Local configuration is put into the per-repository /.hg/hgrc file.
Global configuration like the username setting is typically put into:
%USERPROFILE%\mercurial.ini $HOME/.hgrc
The names of these files depend on the system on which Mercurial is installed. *.rc files from a single directory are read in alphabetical order, later ones overriding earlier ones. Where multiple paths are given below, settings from earlier paths override later ones.
On Unix, the following files are consulted:
- /.hg/hgrc (per-repository)
- $HOME/.hgrc (per-user)
- /etc/mercurial/hgrc (per-installation)
- /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc (per-installation)
- /etc/mercurial/hgrc (per-system)
- /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc (per-system)
- /default.d/*.rc (defaults)
On Windows, the following files are consulted:
- /.hg/hgrc (per-repository)
- %USERPROFILE%.hgrc (per-user)
- %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini (per-user)
- %HOME%.hgrc (per-user)
- %HOME%\Mercurial.ini (per-user)
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial (per-installation)
- \hgrc.d*.rc (per-installation)
- \Mercurial.ini (per-installation)
- /default.d/*.rc (defaults)
For up-to-date versions of mercurial, you should use the XDG compatible location. Unless you explicitly set XDG_CONFIG_HOME
the settings should go into the file:
~/.config/hg/hgrc
Less clutter in your home directory and ~/.config/hg/
can also be used for files like a common hgignore
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