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Mercurial: hg --config option

Incredibly short and simple, but I just couldn’t find anything about the proper usage of the hg --config option for Mercurial and now that I’ve worked it out I might save someone else forty-five seconds of life by posting it here.

Let’s say, like me, you’re stuck behind an authenticated HTTP proxy and have the host and username set up in your ~/.hgrc file, but don’t want to store your password in that file, your hg clone line should be:

hg clone --config http_proxy.passwd=[_password_] http://[_respository-URL_]/ [_working-copy-name_]

In other words, it’s section.name=value, to use the same terms as man hgrc.

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Any mug can have a blog

Modern frameworks have become so advanced and easy to use. I just rewrote this blog in Django, to include the features that I want – which is not many – and it took me most of one morning, which was actually less time than it took to get Habari running on my server. Thanks to Django, any mug can have a custom-made blog inside of a few hours.

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Safari doesn’t display valid XSLT and XML!!

Actually, it’s not Safari’s fault. This has happened to me, and has sat in the too-hard basket for a few weeks, but finally I decided to fix the problem. It’s actually really easy.

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Toby's First Law

If a section of code does not work, but after looking at it you’ve come to the conclusion that it simply has to work, it’s more likely that it’s a different section causing the problem and the bit you’ve been staring at the past three hours is fine.

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