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Configure Mercurial for SSH on alternate port and specific key with a passphrase?

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I'm trying to configure mercurial for use on a remote machine that has sshd running on an alternate port, and for which my login requires a particular key, which uses a passphrase. ssh is configured and working fine, as with: My issue is what goes into the hgrc files to make this work with either o…

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ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-xyz -p 1234 myuser@barney.example.com

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My bad - the hgrc file should have the sections headers: With that change, it gives me the error: Which is because the remote machine only has a pre-1.1 version of Mercurial.

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