Question

I’m facing a rather queer problem. I use an Ubuntu(Lucid Lynx-64 bit, to be specific) machine. I have a repository hg1/ which I cloned to hg2 as follows

$ hg clone hg1 hg2

However, on issuing an "hg incoming" inside the hg folder I get the following message –

Not trusting file
/media/disk/myWorks/mercurial/hg2/.hg/hgrc
from untrusted user root, group root

Not trusting file
/media/disk/myWorks/mercurial/hg2/.hg/hgrc
from untrusted user root, group root

abort: repository default not found!

I check the contents of the .hg/hgrc file inside hg2 and find the following contents :-

[paths]

default = /media/disk/myWorks/mercurial/hg1

On issuing "hg paths" inside hg2 i get :-

Not trusting file
/media/disk/myWorks/mercurial/hg2/.hg/hgrc
from untrusted user root, group root

Not trusting file
/media/disk/myWorks/mercurial/hg2/.hg/hgrc
from untrusted user root, group root

Please notice that for every "hg" command i execute inside the hg2/ repository, i get the following lines

Not trusting file
/media/disk/myWorks/mercurial/hg2/.hg/hgrc
from untrusted user root, group root

Not trusting file
/media/disk/myWorks/mercurial/hg2/.hg/hgrc
from untrusted user root, group root

Could someone help me, on as to why this is happening?

Answer 1

hg reads configuration from installation, system, user and repository config files in that order. it will not read any config files it cannot trust. hg paths will display all paths from [path] section in all the config files it reads. this can be seen in hg showconfig paths. since only trusted files are read and hg2/.hg/hgrc is not trusted (according to error its owned by root user/group, possible since its on external disk owned by same) it is not being read. see hgrc trusted section for adding users/groups to be trusted.

for a list of config files being read for current repository hg showconfig --debug