How to bypass username password dialogs in TortoiseHg?

Question

I checked online and they are suggesting to save your username pass in user global settings file, which I checked and Tortoise already saved them as plain text. But it's still asking me the same username and pass 50 different times when I want to update to a specific changelist.

Answer 1

There are two ways:

1. Save your username and password in mercurial.ini:

   [auth]
   xxx.prefix = https://bitbucket.org/
   xxx.username = USERNAME
   xxx.password = PASSWORD
   

2. Use SSH keys instead and follow setup steps in this post: Set up SSH for Mercurial. This way doesn't need to store your password in plain text.