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Mercurial is a fast, open-source, distributed version control system.

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Mercurial - anyway to make hg serve permanent?

Seems like everyday I have to SSH into our SME server and issue a "hg serve" command so that we can push/pull from/to it. Is there anyway for the mercurial server to stay on? I dont even know whats turning it off as the actual server is always on.
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Where is hgweb.cgi in the Mac OS X deployment of Mercurial?

I'd like to serve a CGI-based Mercurial repository from my OS X machine, but I cannot for the life of me find the hgweb.cgi file, which I assume is step 1 of the process. My Mercurial installation comes from the OSX binary package installation, and…
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Setup mercurial over HTTP

Can you give some pointers to setup Mercurial over HTTP/HTTPS? I am setting up a development server (Debian), where i want to create a mercurial repository and push the changes to the server. I need to authenticate to prevent any unnecessary access.…
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Hosting multiple repositories, each with differing access control

We will need to host a series of Mercurial repositories. For security, we will use SSL encryption in Apache and htpasswd access (required). I tested out a single repository and used hgwebdir.cgi and used the hgweb.config to define the repository…
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How do you create an ssh key for the apache user on Redhat?

As the question asks, how do I generate an ssh key for the user apache on Redhat? My use case, is that we have a mercurial server running under the apache user. We also have several web servers clustered that we need to log on to manually and do…
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Force specific usernames for Mercurial commits

We're switching from Subversion to Mercurial in our corporate environment. There will be a central repository that is accessible via HTTPS with basic HTTP authentication. Now I'm curious whether it's possible to force specific usernames for commits?…
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Allowing Mercurial access but disallowing SSH

I've set up a Mercurial server on a Linux machine and it works fine. Users can, for example, push and pull to it using something like: hg push ssh://... Users can also ssh into the server. For some users I'd like to restrict the access to they can…
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Serving mercurial on ubuntu 10.10

I've read an enormous amount of articles but I seem to sidetrack more and more the more I try. I'm trying to serve mercurial repos through HTTP. I'm using it together with redmine. I've installed mercurial-server. I've set up a repo that I can't…
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How do you handle the default branch in Mercurial?

We've got a repository with two named branches in it: dev and production. There's also the default branch, which we aren't using. Unfortunately, whenever people clone the repository, it automatically puts them on default, and we're having problems…
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How to tell Mercurial to never create hard links

I am planning to use Mercurial in the near future on some projects. These projects will normally reside in a directory on my Windows machine, but I will be sharing these directories using VirtualBox so I can work on them directly from within…
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Delay after commit before Redmine comments ticket

I was used to having a post-commit hook trigger processing of the commit message by Trac (SVN repository). The comment (or action) was added immediately. Now I switched to Mercurial as a VCS and Redmine as a ticketing system. Redmine does recognize…
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Mercurial not receiving push

I have a mercurial web-frontend (hgwebdir.cgi) installed on a server, and an installation of nginx was installed in front of it as a reverse proxy to the web-frontend as my friend suggested. However, whenever a large changeset is pushed (via a…
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How to upload project with Mercurial on Google Code?

I have create a local directory, and made some sub-directories and file in it. registered by project on code.google.com/hosting install Mercurial and did hg init copied the auto-generated password from Google, still don't know for what. Now how…
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Large repositores (hg or git)

I'd like to use hg or git for repo with size in about 5gb. Are they work proper on repo with such a big size?
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Read access control with Mercurial and Apache

I've set up Mercurial via Apache (hgwebdir.cgi). I would like to have the same functionality as when using Subversion and AuthzSVNAccessFile, in which I can restrict which user has read or write permissions for every single repository. The acl…
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