How to save username and password with Mercurial?

Question

Hi, all.

I used mercurial in a personal project, and I have been typing my username and password everytime I want to push something up to the server.

I have tried to add the following in the .hgrc file in my home dir, but it seems to be ignored at all.

[ui]
username = MY_USER_NAME
password = MY_PASSWORD

Please teach me how to do this in the right way, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

A simple hack is to add username and password to the push url in your project's .hg/hgrc file:

[paths]
default = http://username:[email protected]/myproject

(Note that in this way you store the password in plain text)

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:

[rewrite]
http.//mydomain.com = http://username:[email protected]

Again, since the password is stored in plain text, I usually store just my username.

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

http://aloiroberto.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/mercurial-gnome-keyring-integration/

Answer 2

You can make an auth section in your .hgrc, like so:

[auth]
bb1.prefix = https://bitbucket.org/foo/
bb1.username = foo
bb1.password = foo_passwd

(The ‘bb1’ part is an arbitrary identifier and is used to match prefix with username and password.)

See for more details: http://hgtip.com/tips/advanced/2009-10-01-configuring-user-auth-https/