Question

I am pretty new to HG and when I initially set it up I didn’t setup my username for my local repositories. My commits display the current logged in user and machine name. i.e. adam@mypc and after setting my username I now have adam.

I would like to know if it is possible to change the previous commits that say adam@mypc to display adam.

I have multiple PCs that I work from and I’d like to keep all of the commits under the same username.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The name of the committer isn’t set at push time, it’s set at commit time, and it’s an unchangeable part of the changeset itself. You could re-write the changesets with new names (easiest would be using the convert command with an --authormap) but it will change hashes of those changesets and invalidate any clones out there. Going forward you can set that value as the username in the [ui] section of your ~/.hgrc file to make sure they’re the same across all your machines.