authenticated https repositories - scripting?

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Bill Barry <after.fallout at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some repos that are only accessible over authenticated https:
>
>  ...
>  <Directory /var/hg>
>   AuthType  Basic
>   AuthName "repository"
>   AuthUserFile /var/permissions/hg.list
>   Require valid-user
>
>  ...
>
>
>  When I try to clone it from the command line (or push or pull or
>  interact with it at all) it keeps asking for http authorization. I have
>  read about daemons for ssh but nothing particularly about http
>  authentication. Is there anything I can do to get it so I don't need to
>  enter my credentials?
>
>  I am also asking because I am writing a Cruise Control.NET source
>  control provider and I will need to be able to authenticate
>  non-interactively.

You can do `hg clone https://user:pwd@my.org/hg/repo repo`.