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Asked: 2026-06-08T02:47:43+00:00

I am getting the abort: no username supplied (see hg help config) error when

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I am getting the abort: no username supplied (see "hg help config") error when trying to use hg commit on Cygwin. I have setup the Mercurial.ini file properly in my /users/username directory (I am on Windows 7).

Using hg showconfig --debug returns the following:

read config from: /usr/etc/mercurial/hgrc
read config from: /etc/mercurial/hgrc
read config from: /home/Mark/.hgrc

Thus I am assuming since I’m using Cygwin, it’s checking for the Mercurial config files as though I was using Linux. Has anyone else encountered this problem using Mercurial with Cygwin?

How can I get Mercurial to check in the right folders for the config files (again for using Cygwin on Windows 7)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    As a workaround, you could just set the HGUSER environment variable to your desired user name.

    But a better solution would be to add a %include line to one of the hgrc files that Hg is reading, to force it to include the one you created – something like:

    %include /users/username/.hgrc

    You might even be able to get Cygwin to use $USER or similar, to avoid a hard-coded username.

    See the hgrc man page for more info.

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