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When using uppercase section headings in any hgrc or mercurial.ini file, things behave strange or stop working. Using e.g. an uppercase [PATHS] section like: 

[PATHS]
default = http://myrepo

results in the following error:

abort: repository default not found!

It seems that these section headings need to be lower case, although I cannot find any references about this in the official hgrc section page. I thought the Python ConfigParser.ConfigParser() is used for this and that its default behaviour is to convert those names to lowercase. Tested this with 4.0.1 and 4.1.1

But apparently not?

Kurt Van den Branden
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    One might argue that this is either a documentation bug or a legit bug in the configuration parser. You may want to consider reporting a bug on the mercurial bugzilla: https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/. – ngoldbaum Dec 07 '17 at 00:04
  • I think that both hgrc section and config keys are case-sensitive and must then be in lowercase but nothing either in the code or in the documentation is indicating this limitation. – Boris Feld Dec 07 '17 at 09:05
  • It doesn't say that the section headings (or anything) is case-agnostic - so why should they? – planetmaker Dec 08 '17 at 10:05

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