Is there a way to configure TortoiseHg to store my password?
I have a project hosted on Google Code that I access using TortoiseHg. Whenever I want to push changes to Google Code TortoiseHg prompts me for a username and password. Google Code requires me to use an auto-generated password, and it gets quite repetitive to look it up every time.
Security warning
Although this answer is accepted as of 2017-09-15, it is not a recommended solution. You should never store your passwords in plain text. Use the mercurial_keyring extension instead. See another answer here.
You can change your push URL to https://username:password@hostname.com/repo.
This is explained in Google Code's and Mercurial's FAQs.
EDIT: Mercurial FAQ explains another way to do it:
With Mercurial 1.3 you can also add an auth section to your hgrc file:[auth] example.prefix = https://hg.example.net/ example.username = foo example.password = bar
If you want to configure it via TortoiseHg, Repository Setting dialog is available. After opening the dialog, please switch to 'Sync' tab. You can add a path with HTTPS auth information.
http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/manual/2.9/settings.html#module-web.settings
If you want to store the password in mercurial.ini and it doesn't work anymore after you upgrade to TortoiseHg 4.9 or higher a possible solution is to add the port to the prefix:
[auth]
tax.prefix = http://server:8080
tax.username = cerveser
tax.password = mypassword