mercurial_dynamic_username 0.6.0

Example

Install the extension (pip install mercurial_dynamic_username or just download dynamic_username.py).

Write in your ~/.hgrc:

[extensions]
dynamic_username =

[dynamic_username]
work.location = ~/work
work.username = John Smith <john.smith@serious.com>
hobby.location = ~/hobby ~/blogging
hobby.username = Johny <fastjohny@fantasy.net>

and just commit. In any repository lying below ~/work you will commit as John Smith, in repos below ~/hobby as Johny, elsewhere default setting (username from [ui]) will be used.

Configuration syntax

All settings are defined in [dynamic_username] section, and have the following form:

«somelabel».location = «list of directory names»
«somelabel».username = «username used there»

Labels are used only to join those two settings in pairs.

Directory names specified in location are space or colon separated (using standard Mercurial ways of parsing lists in the config). Repository match the rule if it lies within directory tree(s) specified here. Tildas (~/.. and ~john/...) are expanded.

Usernames have the same syntax as standard username.

Specifying location without username asks extension to revert to standard username, for example:

[ui]
username = Jake <jake@loose.net>

[dynamic_username]
work.location = ~/work
work.username = John Smith <john.smith@serious.com>
open.location = ~/work/open-source

will commit as John Smith in ~/work/libs/veryimportant, but will revert to default Jake in ~/work/open-source/libshared.

Match priority

If more than one location matches repository, longest one is used (like in the open-source example above). Longest is selected using actual canonical path after tilda expansion (~/work/sth is longer than /home/littlejohny/work).

Dynamic usernames currently always win against [ui]-section username, even if the latter is defined in per-repository .hg/hgrc. I would gladly give priority to the latter, but I have no idea how to detect that without re-parsing configuration.

Testing configuration effects

You can test effects by callling:

hg showconfig ui.username

(results should vary depending on the repository).

History

None yet.

Development, bug reports, enhancement suggestions

Development is tracked on BitBucket, see http://bitbucket.org/Mekk/mercurial-dynamic_username/

Use BitBucket issue tracker for bug reports and enhancement suggestions.

Additional notes

Information about this extension is also available on Mercurial Wiki: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/DynamicUsernameExtension