diff -r 5ff1fc726848 -r c6bca38c1cbf eggs/mercurial-1.7.3-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mercurial/help/extensions.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/eggs/mercurial-1.7.3-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mercurial/help/extensions.txt Sat Jan 08 11:20:57 2011 +0530 @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +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. + +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 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 + +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 = !