Php – Mercurial (HG) pull parameters: username and password

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I have to write a script that automates pulling from a mercurial repo. Is there anyway I can perform an hg pull -u that includes passing the requested username and password in the same command? I know there's an interactive method which is the default behaviour, and I don't want to save the username and password in hgrc or elsewhere because it will be used by multiple users, so is there a way to pass the username and password via the command line?
I tried using proc_open in PHP but that wasn't working as well as echoing out to STDIN.

Best Answer

I found two solutions:

1. Explicitly provide the URL, including full credentials:

hg pull -u https://user:pass@host/path

2. Provide the credentials with --config, using * as a prefix (from Victor's answer):

hg pull -u --config auth.x.prefix=* --config auth.x.username=user --config auth.x.password=pass

How do you configure it to ignore files?

Ignore is configured in a normal text file called .hgignore in the root of your repository. Add it just like a normal file with:

hg add .hgignore

There are two syntax options available for file matching, glob and regexp. glob is unix-like filename expansion and regexp is regular expressions. You activate each by adding syntax: glob or syntax: regexp on a line by itself. All lines following that will use that syntax, until the next syntax marker. You can have as many syntax markers as you want. The default syntax is regexp, so if you only use regexp you don't need any syntax marker.

You can add comments with #

Example:

# python temporary files
syntax: glob
*.pyc

#editor autosaves
*~

# temporary data
syntax: regexp
temp

Ignore only applies to unmanaged files (i.e. files that are not already checked in). To ignore files that are under version control, you can use the switches -I and -X.

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