Hint for setting the username

[Idan Kamara]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de>
wrote:
>
> Am Dienstag, 9. Juli 2013, 13:29:49 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> > > +                               '(add section [ui] with username =
> > > YOURNAME in %s)')%scmutil.userrcpath()[0])
> >
> > We recommend using email addresses?
>
> I left it out because I wasn’t sure about the maximum length of the
> commandline output. And had no time to read up.
>
> > It's also worth noting that a non-negligible percentage of n00bs balk at
> > the idea of creating a brand new config file.
>
> Fixing this will require config file editing.

commit also has the -u option, perhaps the message could hint towards it
while also mentioning the permanent and preferred way via hgrc.
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