A friend asked if it is possible to set the default place where users checkout Mercurial modules from? CVS has a the environment variable CVSROOT
, which is used by default.
There is nothing that directly matches the CVSROOT
variable in Mercurial, so you won't find a HGROOT
environment variable in hg help env
.
But you can do something similar with the schemes extension. It lets you define new URL schemes that act as shortcuts for longer URLs. So if you often type:
$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/<something>
then you can load the extension and instead type
$ hg clone bb://<something>
The bb://
scheme is a default scheme in the extension. These schemes work whereever you can give Mercurial a URL, so you can push/pull with them too.
You can add your own schemes with something like
[schemes]
x = /mnt/server/var/repos/
and then use hg pull x://foo
to pull from your /mnt/server/var/repos/foo
repository.
From a comment of yours, it's not clear if you're really after shorthands when you hg pull
. They can be created by adding entries to the [paths]
section, see hg help paths
. If you add
[paths]
foo = somewhere
then you can run hg pull foo
to pull from somewhere
.