Thank you for alerting us to the Hg design. I can appreciate the elegance of
it, and I'm always in favor of the most general possible implementation. But
there is a subtle difference between diff.primer and primer.diff.
As I already discussed, Mercurial has both "diff.primer" and
"primer.diff" precisely because "diff" settings affects so many Hg commands.
In particular, in my .hgrc, I have:
[diff]
git = 1
which causes all Mercurial commands that need to generate a diff to use
gitdiff rather than truediff. However, if I *wanted* to apply a set of
flags to a particular command, I could (using the equivalent "git"
commands)...
[defaults]
pull = --rebase
commit = -a
format-patch = -M
So I see a purpose for both *.defaults and defaults.*. Of course,
aliases are also nice (IIRC, Mercurial doesn't have "aliases", but I
could be wrong). Mercurial users are very happy with having both
available. I imagine git people would be too.
--Ted
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