Authentification
Authentification is required for some remote command : push, clone, pull.
For these commands, you can add the <auth> nested element.
The mercurial keyring extension allow to automate scripts without prompting the password.
Auth nested element
Attribute | Description | Value | Required |
---|---|---|---|
mode | auth mode | auth*|keyring | no, auth by default (user + password) |
user | user login | yes | |
password | user password | for auth mode |
<hg cmd="push" destination="http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/ant4hg-tests"> <auth user="ant4hg" password="******" /> </hg>
Mercurial keyring
Mercurial_keyring extension save user passwords and avoid them to prompt password in automated ant scripts.
Installation and configuration
see: mercurial_keyring
$ apt-get install python-pip $ easy_install keyring $ easy_install mercurial_keyring $ cat <<'EOF' > /etc/mercurial/hgrc [extensions] mercurial_keyring = EOF
$ cd my/local/hg/repository $ hg push http://<user>@repo.com/ant4hg/ant4hg-test pushing to http://<user>@repo.com/ant4hg/ant4hg-test searching for changes http authorization required realm: Restricted user: <user> (fixed in .hg/hgrc) password: remote: adding changesets remote: adding manifests remote: adding file changes remote: added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
<hg cmd="push" destination="http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/ant4hg-tests"> <auth user="ant4hg" mode="keyring" /> </hg>