I'm trying to change Mercurial's template.
When I push some files to my repository, the log files list my PC's name, not user's name that is logged in.
I don't want the PC's name, I want logged user's name shows up.
How I do it?
#Praveen-K has the right answer and Lazy Badger and Lasse have the details you're missing. Here it is spelled out, but go pick Praveen's answer:
The user name you're seeing in/on your remote repository are completely unrelated to:
Any settings on your repository/server
The username you use to authenticate to your repository
Instead that string, called 'author' is burned into the changeset (commit) at commit time and is entirely crafted on your "PC". You could set it to anything you want and once you push that commit to the repository that's how it will display.
At your current skill level you're not going to successfully change that string in commits you've already made, but if you dive into a good explanation (not lookup commands) like the hg book you'll come away understanding things.
Make the entry in to your hgrc file. This file should be in your .hg/ directory (it may be in your repo or you can do in your home directory) and if it is not exist make the file with the name of hgrc in that folder.
[ui]
username = Your Name <your#mail>
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When I try to make my Morea repository private, GitHub says that public forks cannot be made private. What do I do?
This was a bug in the original QuickStart instructions, which directed you to create a fork of the basic-template. They have now been fixed, but for those who have already set up a repo, please do the following:
(1) On your laptop, rename your morea directory (let's call it ics314f13/) to ics314f13-old/. Don't delete the directory, just rename it to something different.
(2) Go to GitHub, and delete your repository (i.e. ics314f13). You do this in the Settings page. While this appears scary, don't worry because you still have all your files in your local directory (i.e. ics314f13-old/). This step will mean that you've lost your commit history, but I assume that's not important. (If history is important, there are other more complicated ways to fix things, let me know.)
(2) Follow the revised QuickStart directions starting here:
http://morea-framework.github.io/quickstart.html#Createacourse
The new instructions direct you to create a new, empty GitHub repo. Use your original repo name, the one you just deleted (i.e. ics314f13).
You'll then download a new script (morea-vanilla-install.sh) and run it to initialize the contents of your empty repo with the contents of basic-template. The net effect is similar to a fork, but since you didn't actually fork, you'll be able to make your repo private if you want.
(3) Copy over the changed files from your "old" directory to your "new" directory.
You'll typically just copy over the file master/src/_config.yml and the entire directory master/src/morea/.
Advanced users like Cam might have created new navbar pages. He'll need to copy over these changes as well.
(4) Copy over scripts.
Copy over the morea-run-local.sh script from the "old" directory, and check to make sure everything looks OK.
Copy over the morea-publish.sh script from the "old" directory, and run it to push your changes to your new GitHub repo.
(5) Make your repo private.
You should now be able to go to the settings menu and make your repo private.
In an effort to boost code reviews, I am looking to send a daily/weekly/monthly/some_regular_interval report of changes from mercurial? I figure that if a person does not have to go and find the changes, but they are instead brought to the person, then that should be a step in the right direction. However, I did not see anything already out there. (We use mercurial with TortoiseHG and Jenkins for the automated build in case any of those tools might help?)
What I am looking for:
MUST HAVE
commit message
list of files that changed
NICE TO HAVE
changeset guid
name of person who did the commit
some means to see what changed on each file (probably best via a URL or else the email could become overloaded)
You don't state what OS you are using. I am assuming Windows since you are using TortoiseHG.
On Linux (or other UNIX-based OS) you can create a cron that runs once a week/month/whatever. The following simple script satisfies most of your requirements on my Linux machine:
LOG_DATE=`date -d "1 week ago" +"%Y-%m-%d 00:00:00"`
hg log -d ">$LOG_DATE"
If you use Mercurial templates you can get exactly what you want. You can construct a URL using the changeset ID to point to a Mercurial web-server.
Would the notify extension work? You can configure this on a designated master repository so that emails with a summary of the changes (you can customise the template to include the short form of the hash, the user name, the commit message) along with URLs to the individual changesets are sent out to people whenever changese are pushed to the master repository.
I have commit my code on bitbucket from another computer and forgot to change the name from default to mine. How can i fix wrong name to mine. Thx in advance.
The issue 3295 addresses your scenario: "Incorrect Author name while Pushing code to BitBucket repository"
The author string is something that comes from the configuration on your machine (since you are committing locally and pushing to Bitbucket).
You can set this string for Hg, this doc talks about doing that.
Similarly you can set the Git author, this doc talks about that.
As for the commits you have already pushed to Bitbucket Sebastian is right that you can just map your committer string to your user by clicking on the '?'.
If you go to the commits screen, you will see a '?', click it, and fill out your BB username on the left side, this will link your BB name to your entered commit name.
We use tortoise hg with Kiln. In my vs 2010 c# project there are some files that are part of the repository but I would like tortoise hg to ignore them when I make a commit.
For eg., say in a login screen I may hard code the userid, password for testing. I dont really want this file considered during a commit. I understand .hgignore file but this really works for files that are not part of the repo. Any trick in tortoise hg to ignore files that are part of the repo ? (so they do not show up as modified (M) during a commit.) thanks
I always use a combination of .hgignore and BeforeBuild (in the .csproj file) for things like this.
In one of my pet projects, I have the following setup:
App.config contains my real hardcoded user id and password for testing.
App.config.example is identical, but with fake data like "dummy_user" and "dummy_pw".
App.config is not part of the repository, and it's ignored (in .hgignore).
App.config.example is part of the repository.
Then, I have the following in the BeforeBuild target in the .csproj file of my solution:
<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
<Copy
Condition="!Exists('App.config')"
SourceFiles="App.config.example"
DestinationFiles="App.config"/>
</Target>
All this together has the following effect:
the config file with the real data can never be accidentally committed to the repository, because it's ignored
the repository only contains the config file with the example data
if someone else clones the repository to his machine, he won't have the "real" config file...but if it's missing, it will be automatically created before the first build by Visual Studio / MSBuild by simply copying the .example file (and then he can just put his real login data into the newly created App.config file).
if an App.config with real hardcoded user data already exists, it won't be overwritten when building because the BeforeBuild event will only happen if App.config does not already exist
The answer by Christian is the right one, but I want to mention that TortoiseHg supports what you want with their Auto Exclude List.
One problem with an exclude list is that it cannot work with merges: you must commit all files when you merge and so you'll have to do a little dance with shelve, merge, commit, and unshelve.
When you do a TortoiseHG commit, there is a list of files with checkboxes by them. Deselect the files you do not want comitted.
Or, on the command line, do a commit of the form hg commit --exclude "pattern", where pattern is defined in the hg man page.
You could always use hg forget.
I have my private repository and do commit from my machine. In my hgrc file i have sth like this
[ui]
username = John <jon#mail.com>
In my bucket account I have the same mail and firstname set to John.
Now i do commit and under overview tab I have totally different name. How I can fix it?
Best regards
When you clone from BitBucket it prepends the site with the current logged in username. For example, instead of cloning from https://bitbucket.org/dls/commit-msg-check it will clone from https://dls#bitbucket.org/dls/commit-msg-check. Note the dls# in the second url.
If your local .hgrc or Mercurial.ini files have a different user name in them, BitBucket gets (rightfully) confused. This is how BitBucket shows you that it's confused:
Notice the question marks next to the username. Hovering over them shows "Author not mapped to BitBucket user" help text.
If you're using OpenID to sign into BitBucket, then it would make sense that your username is Artur (the same username that you've used to sign into StackOverflow, I see). In this case, you can check out this link to learn about setting up aliases in BitBucket.