Mercurial authentication caching?

Question

My Mercurial server requires https authentication for pulls. How can I cache my authentication information on the client without exposing a plain-text password on disk?

I'm looking for something like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2799460/using-sudo-with-mercurial-and-ssh-authentication but for HTTPS.

Answer 1

have you explored Mercurial keyring?

It supports HTTPS and comes bundled with the latest version of TortoiseHg. If you don't have TortoiseHg, you can install it like any other extension as well (although I recommend TortoiseHg if you're a Windows user).

Answer 2

You can put an [auth] section in your ~.hgrc:

[auth]
foo.prefix = hg.intevation.org/mercurial
foo.username = foo
foo.password = bar
foo.schemes = http https

Or you can always use a URL with authentication info in it, which is as valid in mercurial as it is in your web browser's URL bar:

http://user:[email protected]/path/to/repo/

which you'd put in your repo's .hg/hgrc file's [path] section.