# HG changeset patch # User Gregory Szorc # Date 1457902261 25200 # Node ID ce1160ae21507d7a8c444c41b19689dea5809587 # Parent 045fe7042510666f444a3fd64528504c6ec5028a help: add empty lines to hostfingerprints section I think this is now much easier to read. diff -r 045fe7042510 -r ce1160ae2150 mercurial/help/config.txt --- a/mercurial/help/config.txt Sat Mar 12 18:51:07 2016 -0800 +++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt Sun Mar 13 13:51:01 2016 -0700 @@ -968,10 +968,13 @@ -------------------- Fingerprints of the certificates of known HTTPS servers. + A HTTPS connection to a server with a fingerprint configured here will only succeed if the servers certificate matches the fingerprint. This is very similar to how ssh known hosts works. + The fingerprint is the SHA-1 hash value of the DER encoded certificate. + The CA chain and web.cacerts is not used for servers with a fingerprint. For example::