Multiple personalities

[Angel Ezquerra]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm at muc.de> wrote:
> Hi, Mercurial!
>
> My first post here.
>
> What is the best way of managing several identities?  When I commit to
> one repository I am (i) acm at muc.de.  When I commit to another, I am
> (ii) bug-cc-mode at gnu.org.
>
> At the moment, I cope with this by having two username settings: in
> ~/.hgrc I have (i) and in <repository>/.hg/hgrc I have (ii).  Trouble
> is, this username isn't propagated when I clone the repo.  So I've got a
> rather clumsy bash script called cc-clone, which copies the username
> from the original repo to the new one.
>
> This doesn't feel optimal.  Is there a better solution to this dual
> identity problem?
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

I think you could use the Projrc extension for that
(http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ProjrcExtension).

Basically, you create an "hgrc-like" projrc file on your .hg folder,
and it will be copied/updated whenever you clone or pull from that
repo. Place your username setting on that projrc file and you are good
to go.

Cheers,

Angel