Confirming user name and password

[Martin Geisler]

Jason Harris <jason at jasonfharris.com> writes:

> On May 6, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
>
>> Dunno if that can be done from the commandline, it would be useful to
>> have a debugpushbundle for that maybe.
>
> Ok so basically apart from Martin's method, there is no way to do this
> without really wading into the code and changing things / making an
> extension.
>
> That is problematic that we can't easily test a username + password
> combination on a server...
>
> Since Martin's method works and I don't have to go studying code and
> try to make an extension with it, since what version of Mercurial
> would the server support:
>
>    hg debugpushkey --noninteractive https://bitbucket.org/mg/hg-i18n\
>     namespaces key old new

Let me look that up for you -- here we go, pushable bookmarks were
introduced with Mercurial 1.6:

  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_1.6_.282010-07-01.29

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