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I am setting up bazaar, and need to tell it my identity using whoami command.

Am confused as to whether I should provide my real name, or my online/pen name for the purpose?

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There is not necessarily a single correct answer to this question. Bazaar stores the claimed email address in revisions when they're created, so that people can tell who committed which revisions. If you don't plan to publish the branch in a public location, it does not matter at all really. If you do plan to publish the branch or hope to have the changes merged into an existing public project, the identity provided is how you will be attributed. So it is up to you or the policy governing the project you are contributing to whether or not to use your real name.

Also note, that you can set the identity information on a per-branch basis:

bzr whoami --branch "Pen Name <nope@example.com>"
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Which ever you like will do. Maybe you would like the same as your Launchpad account in case you use Launchpad.

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  • I do use LP, so do you mean the Display Name used there? In that case, are their any legal implications when needed to connect that to my real name? – charlie Dec 05 '13 at 23:40
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    @charlie you may want to check this. I always have set my bazaar account name and mail with the one registered in launchpad tho as the guide says specially since I can submit patches to ubuntu http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/udd-sponsorship.html#merge-proposal – Braiam Dec 06 '13 at 00:16
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    Launchpad is a bit of a special case. To push there using the lp:~username urls you need to use lp-login You should be able to push to bzr+ssh urls that you own without that. If you are logged in with lp-login, Launchpad will actually show your LP display name rather than the values from whoami I tested this here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6527425/ – andrewsomething Dec 06 '13 at 00:33
  • @andrewsomething if you read my first phrase say "which ever you like" that is a short version of your own answer, then added the conditionality that if he use LP he might want to use the same ID as Lauchpad ;) – Braiam Dec 06 '13 at 00:55
  • Launchpad only cares about the email address (for attribution of revisions), not about the display name associated with it. – jelmer Jan 28 '14 at 00:45