[issue1034] newline in username breaks hg log

[Tom Lynn]

New submission from Tom Lynn <tom-zrephevnyohtf at fish.cx>:

I tried to add an indented comment after my username in Mercurial.ini:

[ui]
username = Blah <blah at blah>
    # explanatory note.

But this becomes "Blah <blah at blah>\n#explanatory note", which was entered into 
the repository when I committed, causing "hg log" to fail.

As I see it there are three bugs here, although the first two are arguable. 
Firstly, the ini syntax should ignore the comment. Secondly, the frontend 
should check for usernames with newlines. Thirdly, the backend should check for 
usernames with newlines.

(This is much like issue248.)

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nosy: tlynn
priority: bug
status: unread
title: newline in username breaks hg log

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