In Mercurial, is there a setting to always push new branches?

Question

When using Mercurial, often I'll do hg push and I'll get this error message:

(use 'hg push --new-branch' to create new remote branches)

Which is fine, I understand why I get the message. But I always want to push any new branches so I was wondering if there was any way to force Mercurial to remember to always push new branches without me having to do:

hg push
... 
(use 'hg push --new-branch' to create new remote branches)
---
hg push --new-branch

Answer 1

There was a way of setting default options for commands on mercurial using the [default] section on .hgrc, but it is now deprecated.

The recommended way of doing that is using aliases. On your .hgrc, put:

[alias]
pushb = push --new-branch

After that use hg pushb to push creating new branches.