I've been trying to get SourceTree to communicate with my company's Mercurial remote repository but I seem to be failing. On the command line, I can get hg pull working just fine (it authenticates with my id_rsa private key without any trouble), but when I try to pull through the UI, it just spins. I have an embedded Mercurial install as well as a separate hg install on the command line.
So, the issue, as it turns out, has to do with the SSH client configuration in the settings. While Git can use any SSH keys available, Mercurial requires the SSH key to be in ppk format. The good news is that this is available through Tools > Create or Import SSH Keys. This will launch PuTTY Key Generator.
Click "Load" and then set the dropdown for file types to ".".
Navigate to the location of the private key file and load id_rsa or similar.
Click "Save private key". This will output the ppk file.
Go back to SourceTree and choose Tools > Options
Set the SSH client to Putty/Plink.
Browse for the ppk file you just created.
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I have the hgeclipse plugin installed and I have a url source to go and clone from for a project that I need to begin work on. The authentication is based on ssh and my ssh key. I understand from basic googling that I need to set up a .hgr file with the path to the private. Can some one give me more pointers
Actually, you can include the path to the key in your Mercurial.ini/.hrgc file. You don't need Pageant or ssh-agent, unless you need to log in to multiple servers. If you're only ever logging in to one server, you can make your Mercurial.ini or .hgrc file have the following content:
[ui]
ssh = "TortoisePlink.exe" -ssh -2 -i "C:\Users\username\username_rsa.ppk"
This code is Windows-specific but basically, you just specify the path to the ssh program, use the -i flag and specify the path to the private key. That formula should work on all operating systems. If you're on Windows, you put that stuff in a file called "Mercurial.ini" and if you're on any other platform, it goes in a file called .hgrc
Hope this helps!
The private key must be added to ssh and not mercurial / hgrc.
You have to configure your ssh client to use your private key, but this depends greatly on the system you're using.
If you're on linux or mac os x, google some informations about using ssh-agent on your distribution.
If you're on Windows, you can use pageant for example.
After installing and playing around with mercurial , I am trying to get Hudson to clone the repository so it can build my project.
At the moment the following task works.
I Can sync to my external host and the code shows up on that host.
Now I am trying to configure hudson / jenkins to access the code on my host.
But unfortunately I am rolling on a error:
Started by user anonymous
$ hg clone --rev default https://bitbucket.org/*/testproject "F:\Hudson\jobs\testproject\workspace"
abort: http authorization required
ERROR: Failed to clone https://bitbucket.org/*/testproject
[workspace] $ hg log --rev . --template {node}
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "hg" (in directory "F:\Hudson\jobs\testproject\workspace"): CreateProcess error=267, The directory name is invalid
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:460)
at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:244)
at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:216)
at hudson.Launcher$LocalLauncher.launch(Launcher.java:698)
at hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.start(Launcher.java:329)
at hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.join(Launcher.java:336)
at hudson.plugins.mercurial.MercurialSCM.joinWithPossibleTimeout(MercurialSCM.java:298)
at hudson.plugins.mercurial.HgExe.popen(HgExe.java:191)
at hudson.plugins.mercurial.HgExe.tip(HgExe.java:171)
at hudson.plugins.mercurial.MercurialSCM.calcRevisionsFromBuild(MercurialSCM.java:254)
at hudson.scm.SCM._calcRevisionsFromBuild(SCM.java:304)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.calcPollingBaseline(AbstractProject.java:1186)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1175)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:523)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:418)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1362)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:145)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=267, The directory name is invalid
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(ProcessImpl.java:81)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:30)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:453)
... 18 more
Finished: FAILURE
What actions do i need to do to tell Hudson to use username x and password y to acces the data?
Edited => Found how to integrate ssh .
Used SSH instead of https
Download putty.exe, puttygen.exe, pageant.exe, and plink.exe from the PuTTY website.
Start puttygen and generate a key in OPENSSH FORMAT (hudsons format) (=> How to use Svn + SSH )
Click the Save private key button and save the .PPK file somewhere.
Click the Save public key button and save it.
Go to your website and enter the public ssh-key
Run pageant.exe. The pageant icon (a computer wearing a hat) will show up in the status tray.
Right-click the pageant icon and choose Add Key.
Choose the .PPK file you saved earlier and type in its passphrase.
The following (end part is copied) from Ted Naleid (Thank you!) blog witch can be found here : Hooking up hudson to your ...
Install the Mercurial plugin in Hudson
All that’s left to do now is install
the Mercurial plugin in hudson. In a
browser, go to
http://INSERT_YOUR_IP_HERE:8080.
Hudson should come up.
Click on “Manage Hudson” and go to
“Manage Plugins”. Go to the
“Available” tab, check “Hudson
Mercurial plugin” and hit the
“Install” button. Hudson will prompt
you to restart, and then it’s
installed.
After that, just create a new job and
you’ll have a new “mercurial” option
in the “source control management”
section. Select that and put the ssh
URL in the “Repository URL” field.
Then put “default” in the “branch”
field and set up the rest of the job
to build/test your code (an exercise
left to the reader).
and here it is the first succesfull build !
Conclusion : This is a summary of all the small blogpost scattered arround the internet. I hope this post helps you in starting hudson and mercurial.
I think the problem is not related to username and password. Your stacktrace tells you there's something wrong with the path F:\Hudson\jobs\testproject\workspace.
Cannot run program hg (in directory
"F:\Hudson\jobs\testproject\workspace")
The directory name is invalid
Anyway, you can specify the username and password in the URL like: http://user:password#mydomain.org.
To authenticate the Jenkins/Hudson Mercurial plugin with BitBucket I too found it useful to use the SSH protocol instead of HTTPS particularly since:
there doesn't seem to be a way to store your HTTPS credentials to BitBucket with the Mercurial Jenkins plugin, but with SSH you can safely and securely store your credentials
with SSH you can configure it to use compression, which Mercurial doesn't do natively.
Good instructions for setting up SSH access to BitBucket are available here: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Using+SSH+to+Access+your+Bitbucket+Repository
Notes:
If you are running Jenkins/Hudson on a *nix server, you will want to login as the user running the Jenkins process and perform these operations from that users home directory, so the configurations will be found by that user (e.g. on my Debian server installation of Jenkins standalone, the user 'jenkins' is created and the home directory is set to '/var/lib/jenkins' [not /home/jenkins] - where I performed the instructions provided at the above link).
I found it very helpful to assure the hg clone command worked from the command line before attempting to have Jenkins call it.
IMPORTANT: In order to get this to work, I had to generate a key ** without ** a passphrase.
You can add the following lines to jenkins .hgrc file (usually /var/lib/jenkins/.hgrc)
[auth]
bitbucket.prefix = https://bitbucket.org/your_user/...
bitbucket.username = your_user
bitbucket.password = ******
See http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html#auth
You can add your scm credentials in the 'Credentials` section of Jenkins:
Also change the job configuration to use the credentials:
I use mercurial in my project, and every time I push new changesets to the server by ssh, it ask me for a password.
Then how to config the mercurial to push with out asking password?
I works on Ubuntu 9.10
On Linux and Mac, use ssh-agent.
Ensure you have an ssh keypair (see man ssh-keygen for details)
Copy your public key (from ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub) to the remote machine, giving it a unique name (such as myhost_key.pub)
Log in to the remote machine normally and append the public key you just copied to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file
Run ssh-add on your local workstation to add your key to the keychain
You can now use any remote hg commands in this session without requiring authentication.
Assuming you're using Windows, have a read of my Mercurial/SSH guide. Down the bottom of the post you'll find info on how to use PuTTy to do this for you.
Edit: -- Here's the part of the post that I'm talking about (bear in mind you'll need to have pageant running with your key already loaded for this to work):
Client: Setting up Mercurial
If you haven't already, make sure you install Mercurial on the client machine using the default settings. Make sure you tell the installer to add the Mercurial path to the system PATH.
The last step of configuration for the client is to tell Mercurial to use the PuTTy tools when using SSH. Mercurial can be configured by a user-specific configuration file called .hgrc. On Windows it can also be called Mercurial.ini. The file is located in your home folder. If you don't know what your home folder is, simply open a command prompt and type echo %USERPROFILE% - this will tell you the path.
If you haven't set up your configuration yet, then chances are the configuration file doesn't exist. So you'll have to create it. Create a file call either .hgrc or Mercurial.ini in your home folder manually, and open it in a text editor. Here is what part of mine looks like:
[ui]
username = OJ Reeves
editor = vim
ssh = plink -ssh -i "C:/path/to/key/id_rsa.ppk" -C -agent
The last line is the key and this is what you need to make sure it set properly. We are telling Mercurial to use the plink program. This also comes with PuTTy and is a command-line version of what the PuTTY program itself does behind the scenes. We also add a few parameters:
-ssh : Indicates that we're using the SSH protocol.
-i "file.ppk" : Specifies the location of the private key file we want to use to log in to the remote server. Change this to point to your local putty-compatible ppk private key. Make sure you user forward-slashes for the path separators as well!
-C : This switch enables compression.
-agent : This tells plink to talk to the pageant utility to get the passphrase for the key instead of asking you for it interactively.
The client is now ready to rock!
Install PuTTY.
If you're on Windows, open projectdir/.hg/hgrc in your favorite text editor. Edit it to look like this:
[paths]
default = ssh://hg#bitbucket.org/name/project
[ui]
username = Your Name <your#email.com>
ssh = "C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe" -ssh -i "C:\path\to\your\private_key.ppk" -C -agent
If it's taking forever to push, the server might be trying to ask you a question (but it's not displayed).
Run this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe" -T hg#bitbucket.org -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe" -ssh -i "C:\path\to\your\private_key.ppk"
Answer any questions, and then try pushing again.
If you're using Bitbucket, open your private key with puttygen, copy your public key out of the top textbox, and add it to your user account: https://bitbucket.org/account/user/USERNAME/ssh-keys/
I have used Puttygen to create a public and a private key, and then is ready to let TortoiseHg on Windows 7 do a clone by going to
ssh://somebody#code.somewhere.com/somecode
but there seems to be no where to add the private key to TortoiseHg? (or even just the mercurial command line)
The file is already some where on hard disk as somefile.ppk Does someone know how to add it?
Either add the following to the [ui]-section of the mercurial.ini in your home directory (assuming your key is in "C:\Users\UserName\mykey.ppk"):
[ui]
ssh = tortoiseplink.exe -ssh -i "C:\Users\UserName\mykey.ppk"
or use Pageant, found in the TortoiseHg installation path (e.g. C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\Pageant.exe). Start it, double click the taskbar-icon that appears, and add the .ppk-file.
need an ssh key generator first
cmd: ssh-keygen -t rsa
open PuTTY Key Generator
Conversions > import key: open the id_rsa file in C:\Users\.ssh (you may have to create the folder !must run cmd as Admin!)
Save the imported file id_rsa as id_rsa.ppk
Open Pageant.exe in TortoiseHG folder
It will show up in Taskbar
Right click and click add keys
Finally add your new ppk file
Oh right copy the contents of id_rsa.pub to hg host
This is probably a simple problem and I'm feeling exceptionally dumb because I can't find a any kind of documentation.
I've just installed TeamCity 5 and I want to get files from my Mercurial hosting and there is two fields I just can't figure out.
HG Command path. What should I put here? The path to a file containing what? Can I get an example of that file somewhere?
The host is using Mercurial over SSH where do I define my private key?
Pull changes from? Should I put the address I'm cloning from i.e. ssh://username#myhost.something/project
I figured this out for my TeamCity 5 server last week.
HG Command path: HG
Pull changes from: https://bitbucket.org/.../.../
Don't put the username# in the URL. This is specificed as in the Username/Password fields. If you include the username in the URL it'll fail as there is a bug in the configuration tool. You'll also see a screenshot of the configuration attached to the thread:
http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/message/5254640#5254640
I'd suggest getting things working with HTTPS and then moving to SSH if possible. This breaks things down into two easier to solve configuration problems. I used the following tutorial to get SSH going on my Windows client machine.
http://www.codza.com/mercurial-with-ssh-setup-on-windows
I've not set this up on my TeamCity server yet. However I did get TeamCity to pick up my Mercurial.ini settings by putting the ini file in \Documents and Settings\TeamCity, which is the account the service runs under.
I've not used team city, but I think hg command path is probably the full path to your local mercurial executable. For me (on linux) that's:
$ type hg
hg is /usr/bin/hg
On windows it's where the 'hg' executable in your system path was placed by whichever (of the many) windows installers for mercurial you used.
Pull changes from sounds like the URL to the repo, so:
ssh://username#myhost.something/project
or
ssh://username#myhost.something//project # note the _two_ double slashes
if you're using absolute paths on the server side.
Your private key location/specification depends on what you're using for ssh and whether or not you're running ssh-agent, but here's a links that explicitly points from within mercurial.ini, which seems sound:
http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/home/wiki/Configuring_TortoiseHg_(Windows)#Pointing-to-you-Private-key