#Tortoisehg settings prompt username how to
#Tortoisehg settings prompt username update
#Tortoisehg settings prompt username password

This is one of the lines under section/directive, while using mercurial keyring extension. this file resides at ~ or home directory. ~/.hgrc - this file is different than the below one. hg/hgrc - this file is used for Repository, at local/workspace location / in actual repository's. NOBODY above explained/clarified terms to a novice user.

#Tortoisehg settings prompt username how to

If you're working under Gnome, I explain how to integrate Mercurial and the Gnome Keyring here:

#Tortoisehg settings prompt username password

If you're working on several projects under the same domain, you might want to add a rewrite rule in your ~/.hgrc file, to avoid repeating this for all projects: Īgain, since the password is stored in plain text, I usually store just my username. (Note that in this way you store the password in plain text) hgrc file to include the extension**Ī simple hack is to add username and password to the push url in your project's. I had this up and running on Ubuntu in about 2 minutes. Perform the steps below and you should be good to go. It will save the username and password into the system keyring, which is far more secure than storing your passwords in a static file as mentioned above. Password database, and uses those credentials if found. hg/hgrc, then for suitable password in the On the next run it checksįor the username in. Repository url) in the password database. Saves the password (keyed by the combination of username and remote To/from given remote repository (just like it is done by default), but

The extension prompts for the HTTP password on the first pull/push If you want a secure option, but aren't familiar with SSH, why not try this? You can find more information on configuring passwordless login here

This is by far the safest way to do what you want. Mercurial fully supports SSH so we can take advantage of SSH's ability to log into a server without a password - you do a once off configuration to provide a self-generated certificate. The secure way - Use SSH to AVOID using passwords This only works in Mercurial 1.3 and obviously your username and password are in plain text - not good.Ģ. You can configure as many repos as you want by adding more triplets of prefix,username, password by prepending a unique tag. The format that works for me (in my ~/.hgrc file) is this

#Tortoisehg settings prompt username update

The INSECURE way - update your ~/.hgrc file hgrc file, use ssh or use the keyring extensionġ. There are three ways to do this: use the. It is bundled with TortoiseHg on Windows, and there is currently a discussion about distributing it as a bundled extension on all platforms. Because it stores the password in your system’s key ring instead of a plain text file, it is more secure. I would also recommend to take a look at the keyring extension. You can also only specify the user name, then you will just have to type your password when you push.

The ‘bb’ part is an arbitrary identifier and is used to match prefix with username and password - handy for managing different username/password combos with different sites (prefix)