Set Your Username
posted by Steve Losh on September 28, 2009
Whenever you commit something Mercurial will record your name along with the commit so you have a record of who made each change. The first step to using Mercurial, then, is to tell it who you are!
To specify your username, you’ll want to edit your ~/.hgrc file to
contain something like this:
[ui]
username = Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com>