Setting Mercurial options with JavaHg

Question

How are --config options interpreted by JavaHg and the Mercurial command server if I set them with the cmdAppend method? The method has no Javadoc yet.

Will they persist from call to call or will they reset automatically after each call to an execute method?

(This question was asked to me in private — I'm re-posting it here with an answer in case others have the same question.) — Martin Geisler, Feb 26 '12 at 13:41

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 26 '12 at 13:32

JavaHg does not do anything special with arguments added with cmdAppend — they go directly to the command server. An option set with

cmd.cmdAppend("--config", "a.b=x");

will only be effective for the next cmd.execute();. This is tested right here in JavaHg.

The Mercurial command server resets the configuration between requests so this will also apply for other command server clients.

Setting Mercurial options with JavaHg

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