Storing a remote path by name in Hg

Question

In git I can git remote add x http://... then git pull x how can I do this in hg?

I was told to add the following to .hgrc:

[paths]
x = http://...

so I added the above to /path/to/repo/.hgrc then tried hg pull x and got the following error:

abort: repository x not found!

where x was mozilla and http:// was http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/jetpack-sdk/

Answer 1

The hgrc file is in /path/to/repo/.hg/hgrc (note there's no period in front of the name). It looks like you created a file called .hgrc in the root of the repository, which Mercurial doesn't recognize.

You could also do hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/jetpack-sdk which would create a local repository and pull all of its files in one step.