hgrc progress extension not loading

Question

The docs say all I need to do is add this:

[extensions]
progress = # shows progress bar for certain tasks

but when I try to clone this repo it doesn't let me because the extension can't be found. It says it's packaged with 1.5 and later and I'm running 1.9.2:

> hg --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.9.2)
(see https://www.mercurial-scm.org for more information)

Any ideas on why it's not loading?

Answer 1

The problem is coming from the "comment" you added on the line. According to the documentation :

Lines beginning with # or ; are ignored and may be used to provide comments.

You can't put a comment like this where you did. Just replace your config with :

[extensions]
# shows progress bar for certain tasks
progress= 

And everything will be fine.

Secondly, as I understand you have activated the extension on the server side ? This extension must be activated on the client side.