On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As followup on the earlier discussion¹, I created a patch for adding a hint how to add the username.
>
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de>
> # Date 1373381124 -7200
> # Tue Jul 09 16:45:24 2013 +0200
> # Node ID ffab6750bcc27f226ac8d3face81ff42baed5302
> # Parent 648d1974b3f328947ee6cf2d00c66815a33cd208
> when no username is set, provide a hint with the user rcfile.
>
> diff -r 648d1974b3f3 -r ffab6750bcc2 mercurial/ui.py
> --- a/mercurial/ui.py Sun Jun 30 15:19:39 2013 -0500
> +++ b/mercurial/ui.py Tue Jul 09 16:45:24 2013 +0200
> @@ -448,7 +448,8 @@
> except KeyError:
> pass
> if not user:
> - raise util.Abort(_('no username supplied (see "hg help config")'))
> + raise util.Abort(_('no username supplied (see "hg help config")\n'
> + '(add section [ui] with username = YOURNAME in %s)')%scmutil.userrcpath()[0])
As Simon mentioned, this patch could use running the test suite and reading of the commit message guidelines.
Thanks!
> if "\n" in user:
> raise util.Abort(_("username %s contains a newline\n") % repr(user))
> return user
>
>
> You can also pull it from bitbucket as ffab6750bcc27f226ac8d3face81ff42baed5302:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/hg-stable/
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Arne
>
> ¹: discussion about the new-user workflow breaking when a username is
> required:
> http://draketo.de/light/english/dvcs-workflow-failures-git-hg
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