mercurial/help/urls.txt
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Valid URLs are of the form::
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  local/filesystem/path[#revision]
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  file://local/filesystem/path[#revision]
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  http://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
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  https://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
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  ssh://[user@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
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Paths in the local filesystem can either point to Mercurial
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repositories or to bundle files (as created by :hg:`bundle` or
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:hg:`incoming --bundle`). See also :hg:`help paths`.
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An optional identifier after # indicates a particular branch, tag, or
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changeset to use from the remote repository. See also :hg:`help
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revisions`.
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Some features, such as pushing to http:// and https:// URLs are only
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possible if the feature is explicitly enabled on the remote Mercurial
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server.
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Note that the security of HTTPS URLs depends on proper configuration of
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web.cacerts.
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Some notes about using SSH with Mercurial:
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- SSH requires an accessible shell account on the destination machine
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  and a copy of hg in the remote path or specified with remotecmd.
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- path is relative to the remote user's home directory by default. Use
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  an extra slash at the start of a path to specify an absolute path::
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    ssh://example.com//tmp/repository
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- Mercurial doesn't use its own compression via SSH; the right thing
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  to do is to configure it in your ~/.ssh/config, e.g.::
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    Host *.mylocalnetwork.example.com
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      Compression no
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    Host *
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      Compression yes
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  Alternatively specify "ssh -C" as your ssh command in your
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  configuration file or with the --ssh command line option.
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These URLs can all be stored in your configuration file with path
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aliases under the [paths] section like so::
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  [paths]
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  alias1 = URL1
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  alias2 = URL2
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  ...
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You can then use the alias for any command that uses a URL (for
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example :hg:`pull alias1` will be treated as :hg:`pull URL1`).
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Two path aliases are special because they are used as defaults when
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you do not provide the URL to a command:
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default:
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  When you create a repository with hg clone, the clone command saves
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  the location of the source repository as the new repository's
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  'default' path. This is then used when you omit path from push- and
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  pull-like commands (including incoming and outgoing).
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default-push:
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  The push command will look for a path named 'default-push', and
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  prefer it over 'default' if both are defined.