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

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