Simon Waight • 3/3/2012

Configure Mercurial Pull with HTTP Authentication for Jenkins on Windows

This technical article details a solution for configuring Jenkins CI on Windows to work with Mercurial repositories using HTTP authentication. It addresses the specific error where Jenkins performs a full clone instead of an incremental pull due to authentication differences in the URL. The step-by-step guide involves creating a dedicated Windows service account and configuring a Mercurial .hgrc file with stored credentials.

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