Mercurial hgwebdir.cgi server setup questions.

Jens Alfke jens at mooseyard.com
Wed Oct 17 09:34:09 CDT 2007


On 17 Oct '07, at 5:09 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Is it possible to save the password somewhere so that I don't need to
> enter it for every operation?

You can encode it into the URL (IIRC, Mercurial recognizes this) and  
put it in your .hg/hgrc:

[paths]
default = http://username:password@example.com/hgweb.cgi

> [1]  I know this isn't terribly secure.

Ditto :)

--Jens


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