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[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision] Paths in the local filesystem can either point to Mercurial repositories or to bundle files (as created by :hg:`bundle` or :hg:` incoming --bundle`). 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. Some notes about using SSH with Mercurial: - SSH requires an accessible shell account on the destination machine and a copy of hg in the remote path or specified with as remotecmd. - path is relative to the remote user's home directory by default. Use an extra slash at the start of a path to specify an absolute path:: ssh://example.com//tmp/repository - Mercurial doesn't use its own compression via SSH; the right thing to do is to configure it in your ~/.ssh/config, e.g.:: Host *.mylocalnetwork.example.com Compression no Host * Compression yes Alternatively specify "ssh -C" as your ssh command in your configuration file or with the --ssh command line option. 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.