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

If you are using TortoiseHg you have to perform these three steps shown in the attached screen shot, this would add your credentials for the specific repository you are working with.

To add global settings you can access the file C:\users\user.name\mercurial.ini and add the section

[auth]
bb.prefix=https://bitbucket.org/zambezia/packagemanager
bb.username = $username
bb.password = $password

Hope this helps.