Mercurial authentication caching?

Question

My Mercurial server requires https authentication for pulls. How can I cache my authentication information on the client without exposing a plain-text password on disk?

I'm looking for something like using sudo with mercurial and ssh authentication but for HTTPS.

Answer 1

have you explored Mercurial keyring?

It supports HTTPS and comes bundled with the latest version of TortoiseHg. If you don't have TortoiseHg, you can install it like any other extension as well (although I recommend TortoiseHg if you're a Windows user).