mercurial/help/config.txt
branchstable
changeset 15005 4a43e23b8c55
parent 15004 d06b9c55ddab
child 15008 d0424f39984c
child 15045 7f504202cb5c
--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt	Sun Jul 31 01:46:52 2011 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt	Mon Aug 01 23:58:50 2011 +0200
@@ -262,7 +262,9 @@
     Optional. Username to authenticate with. If not given, and the
     remote site requires basic or digest authentication, the user will
     be prompted for it. Environment variables are expanded in the
-    username letting you do ``foo.username = $USER``.
+    username letting you do ``foo.username = $USER``. If the URI
+    includes a username, only ``[auth]`` entries with a matching
+    username or without a username will be considered.
 
 ``password``
     Optional. Password to authenticate with. If not given, and the