Currently some of us let hg choose the 'username' automatically in our commits. Some of us use 'username=value' in our ~/.hgrc - which is consistant - but each of us have a different format here..
petsc:/homes/balay>cat ~/.hgrc [ui] verbose=true username=balay at mcs.anl.gov editor=emacs -nw Should we adopt a consistant naming convention for commits? Perhaps the following notation? [which would imply - I should change mine as well] user: Jed Brown <jed at 59A2.org> thanks, Satish ------------------- asterix:/home/balay/tmp/petsc-dev>hg log | grep 'user:' | head -100 | sort | uniq user: balay at mcs.anl.gov user: Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov user: Dmitry Karpeev <karpeev at mcs.anl.gov> user: hong at hmacair2010.local user: hong at hzhangmac.mcs.anl.gov user: hong at vis-v410v166.mcs.anl-external.org user: hzhang user: hzhang at mcs.anl.gov user: Jed Brown <jed at 59A2.org> user: Matt Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> user: Shri at dhcp147.swwn2.iit.edu user: Shri at mcswl134.mcs.anl.gov user: Shri at mcswl156.mcs.anl.gov user: Shri at mcswl165.mcs.anl.gov user: Shri at mcswl173.mcs.anl.gov user: Shri at shris-macbook-pro.local user: Victor Minden victorminden at gmail.com asterix:/home/balay/tmp/petsc-dev> ------------------