[Ilugc] Mercurial server setting up
- From: prataprc@xxxxxxxxx (Pratap Chakravarthy)
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:08:49 +0530
afaik there is no such thing as a mercurial server. Every mercurial
repository is independent and can be accessed as a file on a local
machine, or over ssh/http/ etc on a remote machine.
I havn't setup up mercurial repositories to be accessed via http. So this
is my wild guess.
It is true that mercurial is a distributed VCS and that
all the version control information is stored inside the directory called
.hg/ under repository root, and the working tree is simply a checkout
of .hg/
Now to access mercurial repository it is enough to have the
file path or file url. And because of this ssh becomes quite convenient
to access remote file-paths, since ssh server naturally understands
unix file tree.
But HTTP server is a different beast. It requires configuration to map
HTTP urls to file path. And I guess OP is requesting information on
that.
Cheers,
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