Mercurial configuration files on Linux

On Linux, there are three types of configuration files read by Mercurial: local (to a particular repository), per-user and per-system. When a configuration setting appears in more than one of these files, the local overrides per-user which overrides per-system.

The local configuration file is named hgrc and lies in the .hg subdirectory of the repository.

The per-user configuration file has to be named .hgrc and placed in $HOME directory.

The per-system configuration file has to be named hgrc and placed in the /etc/mercurial directory.

There are a few other per-system configuration options that are more complicated: .rc files in the installation directory or the /etc/mercurial directory.

More information about configuration file names and paths can be found using:

$ hg help config

Tried with: Mercurial 2.0.2