Quickies for Mercurial

Ignore files [permalink]
Tired of build directories or .DS_Store files showing up in hg status? Make a .hgignore at the top level of your repository. It supports glob and regex, and plain names. man hgignore for more details.
Supplying bitbucket username / password [permalink]
BitBucket provides Mercurial hosting. It's kind of a pain to have to provide a username/password on every pull or push. So, just add something like this to your ~/.hgrc file and make sure the permissions on the file are such that nobody else can read it.
```
[auth]
bitbucket.prefix = bitbucket.org/markd2
bitbucket.username = markd2
bitbucket.password = B4dg3rzRuL3
bitbucket.schemes = http https
```
So now when you do a
```
% hg push https://bitbucket.org/markd2/borkfit
```
no need to authorize.
Using Changes.app for hg's diffing [permalink]
Add this to your ~/.hgrc
```
[extensions]
extdiff =

[extdiff]
cmd.chdiff = /Local/Apps/Changes.app/Contents/Resources/chdiff
opts.chdiff = --wait
```
Your Changes.app path is probably different, so be sure to change it. Or add the chdiff's directory to your shell path.
Now you can
% hg chdiff
And get pretty diffing.