Mercurial: abort: no username supplied (see "hg help config")

Question

I have added repository and at the time of commit I get error as error: abort: no username supplied (see "hg help config"). I am not getting Mercurial.ini file on my local as well. Does anyone know how I can resolve this error on Fedora?

Answer 1

Simple answer - in your .hg folder, create a file named .hgrc in there, add the following content (check hg help config for the exact syntax)

[ui]
username = forname surname <[email protected]>
verbose = True

and save it. Should work now. Note that verbose = True is not required, but I included it since it is listed in the help content

(This is from memory, but hg help config will tell you the correct filename and syntax)

Answer 2

Either put a .hgrc in the .hg directory in your repo or put a .hgrc file in your home dir (then it covers all your projects) In the file you should write

[ui]
username = Your Name <your@mail>

Answer 3

On Windows, these configuration files are read:

- "<repo>\.hg\hgrc"
- "%USERPROFILE%\.hgrc"
- "%USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini"
- "%HOME%\.hgrc"
- "%HOME%\Mercurial.ini"
- "C:\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini"
- "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial"
- "<install-dir>\Mercurial.ini"

On Unix, these files are read:

- "<repo>/.hg/hgrc"
- "$HOME/.hgrc"
- "/etc/mercurial/hgrc"
- "/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc"
- "<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc"
- "<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc"

[ui] username = Your Name

Answer 4

I have ubuntu 10.0.4 and mecurial 1.4.3 and the above doesn't work

i included the username in the local

.hg/hgrc

and in the

~/.hgrc

and it still asks for a username when i do a

hg  commit

Answer 5

I had the same problem as user469020. After a few hours of unsuccesfull experimentation I just looked again at .hgrc and found misstyping usename instead of username.