title: How can I get hg to prompt for my HTTP auth username / password on cygwin / windows?
body: <p>At home, this works perfectly. I'm on another computer now (using cygwin) and hg push will not prompt for a username / password:</p>
  
  <pre><code>user@localhost /cygdrive/d/repos/upthescala/viewprotect
  $ hg push https://viewprotect.googlecode.com/hg/
  pushing to https://viewprotect.googlecode.com/hg/
  searching for changes
  abort: http authorization required
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here are the contents of my ~/.hgrc:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[http_proxy]
  host=someproxy:8080
  
  [ui]
  username = My Name &lt;myemail&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance for any advice!</p>
  
  <p>Note: this seems to be a cygwin problem. When I try from the Windows prompt (cmd.exe), it works as expected:</p>
  
  <pre><code>D:\repos\upthescala\viewprotect&gt;hg push https://viewprotect.googlecode.com/hg/
  pushing to https://viewprotect.googlecode.com/hg/
  searching for changes
  http authorization required
  realm: Google Code Mercurial Repository
  user: myemailaddress
  password: *********
  
  remote: Success.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>--
  LES</p>