URL Paths

Valid URLs are of the form:

local/filesystem/path[#revision]
file://local/filesystem/path[#revision]
http://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
https://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
ssh://[user@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
path://pathname

Paths in the local filesystem can either point to Mercurial repositories or to bundle files (as created by hg bundle or hg incoming --bundle). See also hg help paths.

An optional identifier after # indicates a particular branch, tag, or changeset to use from the remote repository. See also hg help revisions.

Some features, such as pushing to http:// and https:// URLs are only possible if the feature is explicitly enabled on the remote Mercurial server.

Note that the security of HTTPS URLs depends on proper configuration of web.cacerts.

Some notes about using SSH with Mercurial:

These URLs can all be stored in your configuration file with path aliases under the [paths] section like so:

[paths]
alias1 = URL1
alias2 = URL2
...

You can then use the alias for any command that uses a URL (for example hg pull alias1 will be treated as hg pull URL1).

Two path aliases are special because they are used as defaults when you do not provide the URL to a command:

default:
When you create a repository with hg clone, the clone command saves the location of the source repository as the new repository's 'default' path. This is then used when you omit path from push- and pull-like commands (including incoming and outgoing).
default-push:
The push command will look for a path named 'default-push', and prefer it over 'default' if both are defined.

These alias can also be use in the path:// scheme:

[paths]
alias1 = URL1
alias2 = path://alias1
...

check hg help config.paths for details about the behavior of such "sub-path".