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Why does the sourceforge mercurial view consider me to be anonymous?

I use Mercurial for the sourceforge project, and every time I commit it, I indicate that I am anonymous in the project feed. I use mercurial through the Eclipse Mercurial plugin from http://bitbucket.org/mercurialeclipse/ . What settings do I need to use for SourceForge to find out who I am when I push my commits?

Mercurial knows my username, just sourceforge does not identify this with my sourceforge user. I have no problem using the command line version of mercurial, in fact I have been using this for a while, and I still had the same problem.

Commits are precisely tagged based on my username in .hgrc, only sourceforge does not identify me correctly.

Change, if you want to see a new project that my friend and I are working on to see the symptoms that I'm trying to describe, it is here https://sourceforge.net/projects/silversaga/

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I filed a ticket for this problem . Now it has been resolved. For anyone interested, this was a bug in SourceForge and has now been fixed.

From the commentary to the ticket with a detailed description of the fix.

Make sure your hgrc has a line similar to:

[ui] username = Your Name < username@users.sourceforge.net
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You can set your username to ~ / .hgrc with the following lines:

 [ui] username = My Name < myname@mydomain >

On this page there is a screenshot of the privileged window where you can install this in Eclipse:

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I assume user mercurial and sourceforge username are the same? If not, this may be the case when they do not match. They, as you describe, sound as if they are. Have you tried adding @ sourceforge.net or other permutations? I never used sourceforge, so I have no idea, something like this even makes sense.

Otherwise, I suggest directly contacting sourceforge and examining their faq / help, as this sounds like a problem specific to their mercurial setup. I had a similar problem on bitbucket.org, where I wrote “matte” under my local name, while my bitbucket username is different. They will then contact this user in the change log, although they do not have access to the project. All I had to do was change the name specified in the eclipse settings, and now everything is fine.

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