Adapted behaviour of ui.username() to documentation and mention it explicitly: Searched in this order: $HGUSER, [ui] section of hgrcs, $EMAIL and stop searching if one of these is set. Abort if found username is an empty string to force specifying the commit user elsewhere, e.g. with line option or repo hgrc. If not found, use $LOGNAME or $USERNAME +"@full.hostname".

%%% should show a removed and b added
A b
R a
reverting...
%%% should show b unknown and a back to normal
? b
merging a
%%% should show foo-b
foo-b
%%% should show a removed and b added
A b
R a
reverting...
%%% should show b unknown and a marked modified (merged)
? b
%%% should show foo-b
foo-b