Another UI/UX bug that needs to be presented as such to say those hackers who think that users are too dumb to understand Unix philosophy, that I know that, but still report this as a Mercurial bug. So, the problem is that command line uses `--user` option and config uses `username` section to provide value for the same thing. That's hard to remember.
We could actually change --user to --username. People can continue using hg commit --user foo since prefixes are supported.
I would change that to 'user' as it is easier to type from command line, but looks like there is no such choice, so consistency is better.
--- Bug imported by bugzilla@serpentine.com 2012-05-12 09:26 EDT --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 3168 at http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue3168
Bulk close: no activity for >2 years -> WONTFIX
Bulk change recent WONTFIX -> new, more descriptive ARCHIVED state (sorry for the spam)
Looks like its going to be fixed and not archived. http://patchwork.serpentine.com/patch/5204/
Fixed by http://selenic.com/repo/hg/rev/6dfb78f18bdb anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> config: allow 'user' in .hgrc ui section (issue3169) (please test the fix)