On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 07:27:51PM -0400, Peter Memishian wrote:

>  > > [defaults]
>  > > status = -mard
>  > >
>  > 
>  > Because that doesn't behave how you think it does, or really want it
>  > to.
>  > 
>  > While it *says* [defaults], it doesn't provide an overridable default,
>  > those options are always passed, such that 'hg status -u' will show
>  > modified, added, removed, deleted, too.
>  > 
>  > Which is both confusing and, in my view, outright wrong.
> 
> Yes, that seems like a clearcut bug, and fixing it would actually make
> [defaults] useful, and eliminate this issue that Will has raised.  How do
> we go about getting something like this fixed?

I don't think we can as it would break backwards compatibility. Maybe a
new section [overridabledefaults] would work?

regards
john
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