Help. I've screwed up my repo again, and I have no idea how.

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net> [20061102 16:23]:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> writes:
> 
> Thomas> $ hg commit
> Thomas> Abort: Please specify a username. (see 'hg help username')
> 
> I like it, but I think this may turn some people off from using
> Mercurial (some users are already afraid of using versioning systems).
> 
> What could be done instead is *ask* the user to provide a username,
> such as in
> 
> % hg commit
> Please configure your full name and email address:
> Full name [default: Samuel Tardieu]: <wait for user input>
> Email address [default: sam at rfc1149.net]: <wait for user input>
> 
> and update ~/.hgrc appropriately.

What should happen if you already have a ~/.hgrc which just doesn't
set username? How verbose has the message to be explaining what
happens now that you put in personal data here?

I think it is important that Mercurial doesn't start to do things
magically, this might annoy the experienced user and confuse the
beginner.

Unlike e.g. codeville we don't have a command to store some
variables like username. If we had, you could just say:
$ hg commit
Abort: No username set, please use something like:
  hg setconfig ui.username="foo <bar at example.com>"

People using the commit feature of versioning systems should be able
to use an editor I think. Or do I make wrong assumtions here?

Thomas

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