On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:34 PM, j. van den hoff
<[email protected]>wrote:

> why is it that after
>
> fossil clone 
> http://[email protected]/**path_to_project<http://[email protected]/path_to_project>project.fossil
>
> it still is the user name of the local account doing the clone that is
> defining the initial "default user"? I've stumbled over this a few times.
> it would seem wiser to automatically create and set the default user to
> "kirk" in this example (i.e. to the specified user name, if any (and only
> fall back to local user name if this is not the case). otherwise, if I
> forget to do
>

That looks like a classic case of "historical usage." i suspect most of
those who hack on Fossil itself tend to use the same login names across
systems (i know that's true for me and Richard, in any case). It of course
would make better sense to use the name provided in the URL.

Could i convince you to open a ticket for this?

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