I have been browsing SO and Google for a solution to my basic problem, and so far I have had no luck.
I am brand new to Mercurial and have just installed it on my Mac. I am using it for personal version control and will not be communicating with a central server (yet).
When I try to commit files, I get abort: no username supplied (see "hg help config"). The common solution to this problem is putting the following in ~/.hgrc
[ui]
username = Firstname Lastname <firstname.lastname@example.net>
which I have done, but the error remains. It just won't read the file. Any suggestions?
Best Answer
For future reference: use
to see the settings from the
[ui]section and to see the files Mercural reads for configuration settings. That should help you along if you ever have to debug such a case again.