Among a lot of other things you can add names for remote repositories to your mercurial.ini so you can access them without having to type that long path. This can be quite convenient e.g. [path] dzlib=ssh://twm@hg.code.sf.net/p/dzlib/hgdzmaincode allows me to clone a copy of my dzlib+tools main repository on sourceforge like this: hg clone dzlib dzlib+tools … Continue reading Adding remote repositories to your mercurial.ini →

As described in a previous post I initially had some problems connecting to Mercurial repositories on SourceForge that went away without me changing anything. In that post I give the following entry for mercurial.ini: [ui] ssh="C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe" -ssh -agent -v -i "D:\path\to\my\private_key.ppk" While this works well, if Pageant is already running and has loaded … Continue reading Avoiding long timeouts when connecting to Mercurial repositories on SourceForge →

I was just about to post the following to stackexchange.com: --- I have got a mercurial repository on sourceforge.net, generated an ssh key with PuttyGen and uploaded it to Shell Services Configuration as described in the relevant site documentation. I then started Pageant and entered my passphrase. Now, I can connect to shell.sourceforge.net without entering … Continue reading Logging into a Mercurial repository on Sourceforge with an SSH private key →