How to save username and password with Mercurial?

Question

I used Mercurial in a personal project, and I have been typing my username and password every time I want to push something to the server.

I tried adding the followi

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:password@mydomain.com/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:password@mydomain.com

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/