Setting up OS X to work with the experimental web2py mercurial versioning system

Setting Environment Variables

For bash or sh shell

(Most people)

Backup your current bash_profile

cp ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile.manual_edit.original

Edit .bash_profile

nano ~/.bash_profile

Add something like the following to the end of the file:

# Default Mercurial User and Email export HGUSER="Your Full Name<emailname@example.com>"

For tcsh or csh shell

For tcsh or csh shell users it would be something like the following:

Edit ~/.tcshrc (or ~/.cshrc for csh shell users).

vi ~/.tcshrc

Add this line to the end of the file:

export HGUSER="Your Full Name<emailname@example.com>"

Testing

Close your terminal session and start a new one.

Type the following command

echo ${HGUSER}

This should print our the value you exported to your new environment variable, HGUSER.