Specify which mercurial-executable is used for mercurial-server

I’m using mercurial-server. On the server, there are two mercurial executables, one under /usr/bin/hg and the other at a non-standard location. I want that mercurial-server uses the one at the non-standard location. Does anyone know how to specify this? I’ve read through config-files of mercurial-server but I’ve not found any way how to achieve this. … Read more

How do you install mercurial when mercurial.selenic.com is down? [closed]

It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 9 years ago. I’m trying to install mercurial (the DVCS) but … Read more

Why does hg choke when I veto resource forks on Samba?

I have a few users using Mercurial over Linux Samba shares, mounted on their Macs. The Samba server has the following veto rules (well discussed both here on this site and elsewhere) to prevent Macs from creating resource forks, which wreak havoc with all sorts of things, especially on developers’ directories: veto files = /._*/.DS_Store/ … Read more

Auto update changeset hook fails with status -1 [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 10 years ago. Improve this question I am using Mercurial SCM over a LAN using a normal shared folder instead of HTTP. I’m having a problem getting the auto … Read more

Mercurial Apache Web Access Gives Me 403 Forbidden Access

after trying to enable mercurial apache web access on my Ubuntu Server 12.04 box, I’ve got a 403 Forbidden error when accessing http://my.site.com/mercurial with log: [Tue Sep 04 01:20:22 2012] [error] [client X.X.X.X] client denied by server configuration: /mercurial/hgweb.cgi I have added this to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default ScriptAliasMatch ^/mercurial(.*) /mercurial/hgweb.cgi$1 <Directory /var/www/mercurial> Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews ExecCGI … Read more

Mercurial upgrade OpenSUSE Linux

I wanted to upgrade mercurial version on OpenSUSE box. This is what I had test99:~/TEST_AREA/hgplayarea # hg –version Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.5) Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> and others This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. … Read more

Can saltstack update itself then run highstate

salt stack is being used with bit bucket. there are 2-3 of us who push updates to it occasionaly. I was wondering is there a way where salt stack can get the latests changes from bit bucket then highstate? if so how would you go about doing so. Answer If bitbucket supports something similar to … Read more

Mercurial ACL extension: allow all users on all branches except one branch which is only for specific users

I want to use the ACL extension in order to allow only the QA team to make pushes and commits to the stable branch, while putting no restriction on other branches. However, I don’t see how to do that with the deny and allow lists, since it seems to me I’d need to be able … Read more

Resolve a contradictory conflict in /etc tree (mercurial-based etckeeper)

I have an /etc file tree which is managed by etckeeper, based on Mercurial. After running apt-get dist-upgrade, I want to revision the changes which have been applied by the upgrade. However, when doing hg add $(hg status . –unknown –no-status) I get this conflict: abort: file ‘php5/apache2/conf.d’ in dirstate clashes with ‘php5/apache2/conf.d/05-opcache.ini’ hg status … Read more