[web2py] How do you manage your app repo with Mercurial

[Jim Steil]

Hi

I'm looking for input on how people manage their database connection 
when setting up your app in a Mercurial repository.

If I just add my app and db.py to my repository, then every time I setup 
a different development machine to access it, the app will, by default, 
point to the same database.  But, this database connection isn't correct 
when I'm working on my laptop or from a home workstation and therefore, 
I need a different way to specify my db connection info.

The solution I've come up with is to have a config file (using 
configobj) hold my db information, and read it in db.py to get the 
info.  But, then this causes even more overhead on each request.

Also, what do you do about your databases sub-directory?  I would think 
that I don't want to track any changes there, but when my repo gets 
cloned an empty databases directory should be placed there.

    -Jim