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:

- SSH requires an accessible shell account on the destination machine

  and a copy of hg in the remote path or specified with 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.

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".