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Reputation: 21

Mercurial on Mac. hg commitabort: no username supplied (see "hg help config")

I have installed Mercurial and BitBucket on my Mac. I created a repository and was able to add files. But I get no username supplied when trying to commit. The solution involved editing the .hgrc file. But this does not exist on my machine. Do I need to create it?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2626

Answers (1)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 2187

Yes, you need to create ~/.hgrc. For example, a minimal version that only includes the necessary username:

[ui]
username = John Doe <[email protected]>

The value of the username property is free-form text, but the convention is as shown (Full Name <emailaddress>).

As an alternative, you could create/edit .hg/hgrc inside your repository. In that case, the username you set would apply only to that repository. ~/.hgrc is for per-user configuration, while .hg/hgrc inside a repository is for configuration that should apply only to that repository. If a given property exists in both, the value in the repository-specific hgrc overrides the value in the global ~/.hgrc. The syntax is the same regardless. /etc/mercurial/hgrc is for the system-global configuration, but usually not a good place to define the username.

Use man hgrc for more information.

Upvotes: 8

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