Problem on WindowsXP (likely will happen on all Win installs), first time using Mercurial. I found the answer in an inobvious place so I'm asking/answering the question myself so others don't have to search like I did.
First time using Mercurial on machine.
Add new repoz:
c:\bla\>hg add
no problem.
Next, commit:
c:\bla\hg commit
error:
abort: no username supplied (see "hg help config")
Solution:
On my Windows install, the Mercurial.ini did not get propagated. It also needs a user email added to it.
Take the default Mercurial.ini file found at in the Mercurial executable install directory (C:\Program Files\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini on my machine)
and copy it to your user home dir (C:\Documents and Settings\myName on winXP).
On a Windows 7 install there is no default .ini, you will need to create a new one in C:\Users\myName.
Then edit that .ini file. Find this area. The username needs an email set. It will be blank--add your email name here.
[ui]
; editor used to enter commit logs, etc. Most text editors will work.
editor = notepad
username = [email protected]
This fixed the problem for me.
I'm sorry, but why do you call this a problem? Mercurial asks you to see hg help config, and this help text explicitly tells you how to add a username -- I know since I wrote that help text :-)
How should we improve the error message to make this more clear?
This is a problem because in the help file the path to the specified config file does not exist, we have to copy the Mercurial.ini from program files directory to USER directory, maybe this is a problem coming from the installer on windows.
@Kevin Won: you forgot to add the line:
verbose = True
I am getting same error. I am on Fedora 11. Not finding Mercurial.ini file. Any ideas how can I resolve this error?
no matter windows or linux, hg looks the "/.hg/hgrc" file for valid configuration. As in "hg help config" says, you only have to add at the end of that file the following lines: [ui] username = YOUR NAME verbose = true
save and "hg commit -m 'test'"
But in my /.hg/,I can't find the hgrc file. I add a file named ghrc and add the [ui] username=test verbose = true . then run the hg commit command . I always report the error message :abort: no username supplied (see "hg help config"). any help?
I installed hg on win xp. C:\Program Files\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini was not created, as were all of the hgrc files listed in 'hg help config'. I created a hgrc file in the repository under .hg and entered [ui] username = My Name verbose = true (case sensitive) and it worked. Any idea why the installation did not create those files in the 1st place?
I had the same problem. What helped me was to put [ui] and "username = firstname lastname" on separate lines of the ~/.hgrc file. Putting these two things on one line did not work and led to the error.
On Windows XP I do not see an ini file.
After creating the repository using the command: hg init
I added a file with the name: hgrc
To the folder: .hg
With the following content:
[ui]
editor = notepad
username = [email protected]
This problem still exists. The mercurial.ini file is ignored no matter where you put it.
No mercurial.ini file is created during installation. I created one in the Mercurial install directory, but it had no effect. I copied it to %USERPROFILE% and then to %HOME%, but neither one works.
Putting .hgrc in the HOME directory works.
The documentation ("hg help config") needs to be fixed.