$ unset HGUSER $ EMAIL="My Name " $ export EMAIL $ hg init test $ cd test $ touch asdf $ hg add asdf $ hg commit -m commit-1 $ hg tip changeset: 0:53f268a58230 tag: tip user: My Name date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: commit-1 $ unset EMAIL $ echo 1234 > asdf $ hg commit -u "foo@bar.com" -m commit-1 $ hg tip changeset: 1:3871b2a9e9bf tag: tip user: foo@bar.com date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: commit-1 $ echo "[ui]" >> .hg/hgrc $ echo "username = foobar " >> .hg/hgrc $ echo 12 > asdf $ hg commit -m commit-1 $ hg tip changeset: 2:8eeac6695c1c tag: tip user: foobar date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: commit-1 $ echo 1 > asdf $ hg commit -u "foo@bar.com" -m commit-1 $ hg tip changeset: 3:957606a725e4 tag: tip user: foo@bar.com date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: commit-1 $ echo 123 > asdf $ echo "[ui]" > .hg/hgrc $ echo "username = " >> .hg/hgrc $ hg commit -m commit-1 abort: no username supplied (see "hg help config") [255] $ rm .hg/hgrc $ hg commit -m commit-1 2>&1 no username found, using '[^']*' instead (re) $ echo space > asdf $ hg commit -u ' ' -m commit-1 transaction abort! rollback completed abort: empty username! [255] $ cd ..