HG Path to the 'hg' executable, automatically passed when
running hooks, extensions or external tools. If unset or
empty, this is the hg executable's name if it's frozen, or
an executable named 'hg' (with %PATHEXT% [defaulting to
COM/EXE/BAT/CMD] extensions on Windows) is searched.
HGEDITOR
This is the name of the editor to run when committing. See
EDITOR.
(deprecated, use configuration file)
HGENCODING
This overrides the default locale setting detected by
Mercurial. This setting is used to convert data including
usernames, changeset descriptions, tag names, and
branches. This setting can be overridden with the
--encoding command-line option.
HGENCODINGMODE
This sets Mercurial's behavior for handling unknown
characters while transcoding user input. The default is
"strict", which causes Mercurial to abort if it can't map
a character. Other settings include "replace", which
replaces unknown characters, and "ignore", which drops
them. This setting can be overridden with the
--encodingmode command-line option.
HGENCODINGAMBIGUOUS
This sets Mercurial's behavior for handling characters
with "ambiguous" widths like accented Latin characters
with East Asian fonts. By default, Mercurial assumes
ambiguous characters are narrow, set this variable to
"wide" if such characters cause formatting problems.
HGMERGE
An executable to use for resolving merge conflicts. The
program will be executed with three arguments: local file,
remote file, ancestor file.
(deprecated, use configuration file)
HGRCPATH
A list of files or directories to search for configuration
files. Item separator is ":" on Unix, ";" on Windows. If
HGRCPATH is not set, platform default search path is used.
If empty, only the .hg/hgrc from the current repository is
read.
For each element in HGRCPATH:
• if it's a directory, all files ending with .rc are added
• otherwise, the file itself will be added
HGPLAIN
When set, this disables any configuration settings that
might change Mercurial's default output. This includes
encoding, defaults, verbose mode, debug mode, quiet mode,
tracebacks, and localization. This can be useful when
scripting against Mercurial in the face of existing user
configuration.
Equivalent options set via command line flags or
environment variables are not overridden.
HGPLAINEXCEPT
This is a comma-separated list of features to preserve
when HGPLAIN is enabled. Currently the only value
supported is "i18n", which preserves internationalization
in plain mode.
Setting HGPLAINEXCEPT to anything (even an empty string)
will enable plain mode.
HGUSER This is the string used as the author of a commit. If not
set, available values will be considered in this order:
• HGUSER (deprecated)
• configuration files from the HGRCPATH
• EMAIL
• interactive prompt
• LOGNAME (with @hostname appended)
(deprecated, use configuration file)
EMAIL May be used as the author of a commit; see HGUSER.
LOGNAME
May be used as the author of a commit; see HGUSER.
VISUAL This is the name of the editor to use when committing. See
EDITOR.
EDITOR Sometimes Mercurial needs to open a text file in an editor
for a user to modify, for example when writing commit
messages. The editor it uses is determined by looking at
the environment variables HGEDITOR, VISUAL and EDITOR, in
that order. The first non-empty one is chosen. If all of
them are empty, the editor defaults to 'vi'.
PYTHONPATH
This is used by Python to find imported modules and may
need to be set appropriately if this Mercurial is not
installed system-wide.
