Questions tagged [mercurial]

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hg repo and kbfiles extension

I've used Mercurial repository with kbfiles but now I have to use pure Mercurial. How to convert repo from kbfiles to pure hg? They are not compatible and seem I will lose all history if I not find the solution.
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Have static web content and Mercurial server under the same URL

I'm looking for a way to display static HTML content using an Apache 2 webserver while also having a Mercurial repository under the same URL. E.g. under http://www.myserver.org/projectname there should be the project HTML available if browsed with a…
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Hudson Mercurial checkout throws exception on Debian

I'm trying to configure Hudson to checkout my site's sources from Mercurial but it throws an exception. The /var/lib/hudson/jobs/jobname directory does exist, and I can create a workspace directory in there (even after su hudson), but as soon as I…
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Mercurial HGWeb not working with UNC path on windows

I have recently started moving some HG repos to a network drive. The HG web setup worked perfectly when the repos were on the local drive. Old Setup: C:\Repos\repo1 C:\Repos\repo2 the hgweb.conf had the following: [paths] / =…
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How can I tell if Mercurial is Installed?

I am using another developer's Ubuntu box and trying to tell if Mercurial is installed and working. As @stew pointed out, I did the 'dpkg -l mercurial' command and got this: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |…
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Traceback when configuring hgweb.cgi to serve Mercurial repositories

I am having trouble having my hgweb.cgi script successfully read my hgweb.config file. It fails with the error Abort: /var/www/hg/hgweb.config: not a Mercurial bundle file. Details below /var/www/hg/hgweb.config [collections] / =…
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Cannot install mercurial properly - PYTHONPATH error

I have a server running on Ubuntu 10.04 on which I wanted to install Mercurial via % sudo apt-get install mercurial It seems to have installed successfully and doesn't show me any error messages. But when I try it I get: % hg abort: couldn't find…
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mercurial updated, mod_wsgi runs old version

I have a VPS with Centos 5.5, installed Python 2.6 following Setup Python 2.5, mod_wsgi, and Django 1.0 on CentOS 5 (cPanel) tutorial and Mercurial 1.6 via easy-install. Now I wanted to update to Mercurial 1.7.5, so I easy-installed it and it seemed…
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Mercurial hgwebdir configuration URL

I'm setting up an hgwebdir configuration for the first time with Mercurial on apache2. I can see the three repositories I've set up in the first page, and I've figured out how to modify their names so they don't resemble the directory path. But when…
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HTTP commit notifications from a Mercurial repository?

I would like to achieve a behavior similar to the NotifyExtension of Mercurial, except that instead of an email to be send, it would be an HTTP request to be performed on a specified URL. Does anyone know how to achieve such a behavior?
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Is it possible to refer to an external .hgrc file?

Is there any way for me to refer to an external configuration in Mercurial? Our repository is on a shared drive so at the moment the last user to use it is the username it keeps since by default hgrc is under the .hg folder local to the repository.
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Mercurial internal Setup on Windows 7 - Exception happened during processing of request from

Hy, i have 1 central repository and many locals. On my machine i have local and a central repository too. I can make clone/commit/update/push/pull very easy between the local and central repository on my local machine. but when i want to make a…
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Would You Host Source Control Server Like This?

I want to host an SVN server (or git or mercurial or whatever). I have two options: Install it on a small box sitting in the office closet, only connected to the LAN. Install it on a server at a data center in another state that has a publicly…
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How can I install Mercurial on my Windows Server 2003/08?

I'd like to install Mercurial on my Windows Server. I can use either 2003/2008 depending on which is easiest to install on. Thanks for the help fellow neckbeards!
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Mercurial clone ignore the ignored

So i have a local clone and a central repository. Now I need to create local clones from the main clone and use them. The problem is the clone command is ignoring the ignored files (like it should). But there are many configuration files in this…
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