How do you init a new Mercurial project with a different username?

Question

Normally I would do this to start a new Mercurial project:

cd /project-directory
hg init

This uses the username that is set somewhere on my machine (%USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini)

But on this occasion I want to initialize a project with a different username.

Is there an option to use with hg init to do this?

Answer 1

hg init doesn't use the username at all (repo starts with no changesets, at revision null). If you want to commit with a different username, use hg commit --user.

You can also set the username in the repository's hgrc (.hg/hgrc), just like you do in global one — then all commits to that repository will use it.