This is by design. Reading Mercurial config files owned by
random/unknown/untrusted users would be a security risk, because those
untrusted users can install malicious hooks that run with your
privileges on certain Mercurial operations (e.g. commit).
You can add to the set of trusted users with configuration: add a
section like
[trusted]
users = root
and this problem will go away. Keep in mind, though, that this exposes
you to the risk of attackers putting a malicious hook into your .hg/hgrc
file!
See the hgrc(5) man page for details, specifically under "trusted".
** Changed in: mercurial (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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.hg/hgrc are not read on non-unix filesystems
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