Can I change the username on a mercurial changeset?

Question

I didn\'t set the username on my development computer and made a few commits. Can I retroactively change the username so it\'s clear who committed these changesets?

Answer 1

If you have a single outgoing changeset, there is a very simple way to do this:

$ hg ci --amend --user "My Name " -X "**"

The -X "**" option can be omitted if you don't have any local changes.