130 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

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   133 HGEDITOR::

   134     This is the name of the editor to use when committing. Defaults to the

   135     value of EDITOR.

   136 

   137     (deprecated, use .hgrc)

   138 

   139 HGENCODING::

   140     This overrides the default locale setting detected by Mercurial.

   141     This setting is used to convert data including usernames,

   142     changeset descriptions, tag names, and branches. This setting can

   143     be overridden with the --encoding command-line option.

   144 

   145 HGENCODINGMODE::

   146     This sets Mercurial's behavior for handling unknown characters

   147     while transcoding user inputs. The default is "strict", which

   148     causes Mercurial to abort if it can't translate a character. Other

   149     settings include "replace", which replaces unknown characters, and

   150     "ignore", which drops them. This setting can be overridden with

   151     the --encodingmode command-line option.

   152 

   153 HGMERGE::

   154     An executable to use for resolving merge conflicts. The program

   155     will be executed with three arguments: local file, remote file,

   156     ancestor file.

   157 

   158     The default program is "hgmerge", which is a shell script provided

   159     by Mercurial with some sensible defaults.

   160 

   161     (deprecated, use .hgrc)

   162 

   163 HGRCPATH::

   164     A list of files or directories to search for hgrc files.  Item

   165     separator is ":" on Unix, ";" on Windows.  If HGRCPATH is not set,

   166     platform default search path is used.  If empty, only .hg/hgrc of

   167     current repository is read.

   168 

   169     For each element in path, if a directory, all entries in directory

   170     ending with ".rc" are added to path.  Else, element itself is

   171     added to path.

   172 

   173 HGUSER::

   174     This is the string used for the author of a commit.

   175 

   176     (deprecated, use .hgrc)

   177 

   178 EMAIL::

   179     If HGUSER is not set, this will be used as the author for a commit.

   180 

   181 LOGNAME::

   182     If neither HGUSER nor EMAIL is set, LOGNAME will be used (with

   183     '@hostname' appended) as the author value for a commit.

   184 

   185 EDITOR::

   186     This is the name of the editor used in the hgmerge script. It will be

   187     used for commit messages if HGEDITOR isn't set. Defaults to 'vi'.

   188 

   189 PYTHONPATH::

   190     This is used by Python to find imported modules and may need to be set

   191     appropriately if Mercurial is not installed system-wide.

   192