How do you set the username that Mercurial uses for commits? - mercurial

Question

When I commit something in Mercurial like this:
hg commit -m "username question"
I see this output:
No username found, using 'WindowsVistaAdmin#ChunkyMonkey' instead
ChunkyMonkey is my Windows machine name and obviously WindowsVistaAdmin is the user that I am signed in as on this machine.
How can I set the username to something more respectable, or, at least, more concise?

Answer 1

In your ~/.hgrc (*nix) or mercurial.ini (Windows) file:
[ui]
username = First Last <email#address.com>
(mercurial.ini is in C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\ for XP and lower, C:\Users\[username]\ for Vista and higher. You can also run hgtk userconfig if you have TortoiseHg installed and do it that way.)

Answer 2

you can specify your username on the command line directly if you want to using --config. eg
hg --config ui.username=frymaster -m "comment here" commit
in fact, you can override anything in your .hgrc with this command. just look at your .hgrc and note the format:
[section]
key=val
that translates directly to
hg --config section.key=val

Answer 3

Information from here:
Setting up a username
When you try to run hg commit for the
first time, it is not guaranteed to
succeed. Mercurial records your name
and address with each change that you
commit, so that you and others will
later be able to tell who made each
change. Mercurial tries to
automatically figure out a sensible
username to commit the change with. It
will attempt each of the following
methods, in order:
If you specify a -u option to the hg commit command on the command
line, followed by a username, this is
always given the highest precedence.
If you have set the HGUSER environment variable, this is checked
next.
If you create a file in your home directory called .hgrc, with a
username entry, that will be used
next. To see what the contents of this
file should look like, refer to the
section called “Creating a Mercurial
configuration file” below.
If you have set the EMAIL environment variable, this will be
used next.
Mercurial will query your system to find out your local user name and
host name, and construct a username
from these components. Since this
often results in a username that is
not very useful, it will print a
warning if it has to do this.
If all of these mechanisms fail,
Mercurial will fail, printing an error
message. In this case, it will not let
you commit until you set up a
username.
You should think of the HGUSER
environment variable and the -u option
to the hg commit command as ways to
override Mercurial's default selection
of username. For normal use, the
simplest and most robust way to set a
username for yourself is by creating a
.hgrc file; see below for details.

Answer 4

Here is how my windows /users/xxx/mercurial.ini looks. I don't have to enter username or passwords for anything. Looks like it might be repo specific. I have tortoiseHG installed, not sure if that makes any difference.
[ui]
username=mbroekhuis
[auth]
repo.prefix=http://myrepo
repo.username=mbroekhuis
repo.password=secret

Answer 5

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