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

Question

When I commit something in Mercurial like this:

hg commit -m \"username question\"

I see this output:

No username found, using          


        

Answer 1

In your ~/.hgrc (*nix) or mercurial.ini (Windows) file:

[ui]
username = First Last 

(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.)