cygwin# cygcheck -c mercurial Cygwin Package Information Package Version Status mercurial 1.9.3-1 OK
When you try perform communication through HTTPS you get warning: cygwin# hg identify https://bitbucket.org/django/django warning: bitbucket.org certificate with fingerprint 81:2b:08:90:dc:d3:71:ee:e0:7c:b4:75:ce:9b:6c:48:94:56:a1:fe not verified (check hostfingerprints or web.cacerts config setting) warning: bitbucket.org certificate with fingerprint 81:2b:08:90:dc:d3:71:ee:e0:7c:b4:75:ce:9b:6c:48:94:56:a1:fe not verified (check hostfingerprints or web.cacerts config setting) warning: bitbucket.org certificate with fingerprint 81:2b:08:90:dc:d3:71:ee:e0:7c:b4:75:ce:9b:6c:48:94:56:a1:fe not verified (check hostfingerprints or web.cacerts config setting) warning: bitbucket.org certificate with fingerprint 81:2b:08:90:dc:d3:71:ee:e0:7c:b4:75:ce:9b:6c:48:94:56:a1:fe not verified (check hostfingerprints or web.cacerts config setting) 92c12b8fd96a When you provide certificate you can not see warning message: cygwin# hg --config web.cacerts=/usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt identify https://bitbucket.org/django/django 92c12b8fd96a I suggest to integrate Cygwin 'mercurial' package with Cygwin 'ca-certificates' like this done in Debian distro: debian# cat /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/cacerts.rc [web] # user can disable this Debian default by overriding this option in ~/.hgrc # and/or using the --insecure command line switch cacerts = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt I was surprised that 'ca-certificates' have been uploaded to Cygwin distribution recently: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2011-11/msg00000.html To fix issue I create: cygwin# mkdir /etc/mercurial cygwin# cat <<EOF >/etc/mercurial/hgrc [web] cacerts = /usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt EOF Note that if cacerts point to non-existing file you get error from Mercurial: cygwin# hg identify https://bitbucket.org/django/django || echo ERROR abort: could not find web.cacerts: /a/usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt ERROR May be Debian solution with '/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d' sufficient to avoid this problem. -- Best regards! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
