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

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