after some research I think I am the only one that is dumb enough to don't understand how to connect to a TortoiseHg on a Webserver with my local Hg.
I can't find any configurations in Hg or am I so stupid and blind?
Can anyone help my helpless brain?
TortoiseHG is simply a GUI for mercurial. It sounds like you are trying to interact with 2 different mercurial repos.
First of all, to connect to the repo on your webserver you have to make sure it is currently serving. You can do this by going onto that box, opening a cmdline with its current directory as your repo, and then typing
hg serve
This will then show a message with a url, like
listening at http://Mywebserver:8000/ (bound to *:8000)
Alternatively, if you have TortoiseHG installed on the webserver, you can rightclick the folder containing the repo, and in the TortoiseHG shell extension click Web Server. In the window that opens, click start to serve the repo.
This repo is now accessible to any machine than can reach that machine and port.
To use TortoiseHG to clone this repo from your local machine ( assuming you have tortoiseHG installed on your machine ):
Open an explorer window, Right click, and in the TortoiseHG shell extension click clone.
In source, enter the url that was displayed when you served on the webserver. For destination, you can enter the name of the folder you would like the repo created in.
A clone of that repo will now be created where you specified.
By default, all its push and pull commands will reference the url of the repo on the webserver. IE, if you do a push or pull cmd on your cloned repo without specify the repo to push or pull to, mercurial will assume it should push or pull to that url.
To interact with the remote repo:
Navigate to the directory containing your repo.
Right click your repo's folder, and in the TortoiseHG shell extension click Synchronize.
You should see that the url field is already filled in with the url you cloned from. You can now click the incoming, pull, outgoing and push buttons to perform those actions.
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I created a mercurial repository on some file servers net share.
Is it possible to automatically get the remote repository updated to tip if somebody pushes its changes?
Because some other people (purely users) may copy the repositories content (rather than cloning, because of lack of .hg) and i want them to get the newest version.
Since it is a share on a simple NAS it would be good if the pushing client could invoke this update.
It seems that a hook on the changegroup event can solve this.
Add the following lines to the repository's configuration file (repo/.hg/hgrc)
[hooks]
changegroup = hg update
This solution was suggested on a slightly different question:
Cloning mercurial repo to the remote host
At least under windows this seems only to work on local repositories. The reason for this is, that hg tries run a cmd on the remote path that fails, since it does not support UNC paths as current direcory.
Adding explicitly the repository url fixes this, but its not client independent anymore.
[hooks]
changegroup = hg update -R %HG_URL%
You could treat the server repository as your "local working directory" and then PULL from your own PC to that location. If you use hg pull --update then it will automatically update the working folder to the latest.
One way to do this is to login to your NAS and physically run the hg command line program there. If not, you could also mount the NAS folder on your local PC and then chdir to its mapped local folder and use your local hg client to do so.
This might seem like an odd thing to do but Mercurial doesn't care which is the "clone" and which is the "server", you can swap them interchangeably in your workflow.
Getting ready to launch a website/project that was in beta testing. I want to switch it over to version control (Mercurial since I'm familiar with it).
Problem is, I am not sure how to go about doing it since the code on the website is already up and in-use and how to deal with the directories I do not need to manage (vendor and web/Upload).
Whats the best way to go about this?
Would I put the entire site into a folder, init a Merc repo, use hgignore to not track vendor and web/Upload, commit, then clone it to the live server?
Thanks! Just confused on what to do since the site is live and has user uploads.
I'm assuming you want to turn the website directory on your web server into a Mercurial repository. If that's the case, you would create a new repository somewhere on that computer, then move the .hg directory in the new repository into the website directory you want to be the root of the repository. You should then be able to run
hg add * --exclude vendor --exclude web/Upload
hg commit -m "Adding site to version control."
to get all the non-user files into version control.
I recommend, however, that you write a script or investigate tools that will deploy your website out of a repository outside your web root. You don't want your .hg directory exposed to the world. Until you get a deploy script/tool working, make sure you tell your webserver to prohibit/reject all requests to your .hg directory.
I have a website that I want to deploy to a clients DEV and UAT environments, the site is part of a mercurial repo - it is in the Website folder at the same level as the .hg folder. I know I can push the entire repository but would rather push only the website folder so the client does not have the other files and folders.
The repo looks like this:
Project root
.hg
Database (SQL Source Control uses this)
Documentation (All specs, pdfs, art work etc.)
Lib (pre-Nuget 3rd party dlls)
packages (Nuget stuff)
Website (this is the only area I want to deploy)
.hgignore
Project.sln
Edit:
The clients servers are not connected directly to the internet, my access to them is over a vpn and then RDP. Currently to deploy any changes I need to zip the site up, put it on a shared ftp server then wait up to 3 days for the files to be copied to the servers. Rules have been configured so I can use Mercurial over this connection.
Edit 2
I have managed to create a subrepo from the Website folder by forgetting the Website folder and all it's contents, committing the change then putting the files back, creating a repo then echoing out the .hgsub file. Locally this works for me, I can clone from the Website repo without getting any of the additional folders. However I have not been able to use this version of the repo, even if I repeat the process on our repo server. When I try to clone the hosted version down to my local working copy I get 404 errors, but I can clone the hosted version on the hosting server.
I would appreciate some step-by-step instructions (a guide for dummies if you like) on how to achive my goal; which is to be able to push only the Website folder to the clients servers. The master copy of the repo is on our repo server, I have a local clone and need to be able to push out versions from my copy.
Edit 3
Turns out that the problem I was having converting a folder to a subrepo as described in http://mercurial.aragost.com/kick-start/en/subrepositories/#converting-folder-into-a-subrepository was that the convert command, in versions after 2.1.0, is broken and is still broken in 2.3.1. After I figured that out and rolled back to that version of TortoiseHg I was able to convert the folder to a subrepo, in the root of the repo I have .hgsub which says Website = Website. I was able to work with that locally, commit to the whole repo, the subrepo, clone either the full repo or the subrepo (which is what I want), however I can't get this to work from our master repo server.
I zipped the whole thing up and ftp'd it to our remote master repo server, then set it up so I could clone from it. Directly on the server this works fine (hg clone --verbose -- C:\Repositories\EM .), however when I try to clone from the server to my local development machine with (hg clone --verbose -- https://myserver.com/hg/EM/ .) it fails with "HTTP Error: 404 (Not Found)".
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 628 changesets with 6002 changes to 4326 files
updating to branch default
resolving manifests
calling hook preupdate.eol: <function preupdate at 0x00000000035204A8>
getting .hgignore
getting .hgsub
getting .hgsubstate
HTTP Error: 404 (Not Found)
[command returned code 255 Fri Apr 20 10:51:23 2012]
I don't know what the problem is, the files are there so why the 404?
In my opinion Mercurial shouldn't be used for this purpose. This is particularly true if that website is a web application because you shouldn't have the DLLs in Mercurial.
You should look at the web deployment tool built into Visual Studio. Have a look at this page to see if it suits your purpose.
If you can't install the required services on the destination server then it can be configured to use FTP instead.
You can not push part of repo tree
If DEV and UAT environments are unversioned targets, you can use any other way for distributing Mercurial content
You can separate Website into subrepo and will be able to push this repo
As others have pointed out you can't use push for this. Just do 'rsync' from your server to theirs. You could even automated that in a hook, where you push to a local repository and it auto-deploys to their site. Something like:
[hooks]
changegroup.deploy = $HG update ; rsync Website account#theirserver:/path/to/docroot
I have a working solution to this. I created a batch file that creates an outgoing repo and starts the built in server so I can pull from it on the client machines. First it clears out the previous folder, then clones from my local working copy (there's a parameter to determine which tag it should clone from). Next it creates a map file and converts the Website folder to a new Website2 folder in order to preserve the history then gets rid of the original folder and renames the new one. Finally it spins up the built in server.
cd c:\inetpub\wwwroot
rd /S /Q _ProjectName
hg clone -- C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ProjectName#%1 C:\inetpub\wwwroot\_ProjectName
cd c:\inetpub\wwwroot\_ProjectName
echo include Website > map.txt
echo rename Website . >> map.txt
hg --config extensions.hgext.convert= convert --filemap map.txt . Website2
cd Website2
hg update
cd ..
hg remove Website/*
hg commit -m "Removed Website"
rename Website2 Website
hg serve
So it isn't pretty, but now I just need to call the batch file and pass the tag I want to build the outgoing website from (uat, dev etc.) and give it a minute to create my Website folder, with history, that I can use to pull from or push from. I don't need to call hg serve because I know the names of the client servers so I can push the changeset out by creating aliased remote repositories. But I included that step so the client machines can pull. I haven't fully explored this option, so I'm not sure whether it's got any particular advantage. It's fine for the case when it's just me working on the project, but if any other developer needs to work on this then the Uri for their local project server will obviously be different (http://SIMON-PC:8000/ won't be the case for everyone), in which case pushing into the client might be best.
But by using this approach my local working repo doesn't need to change and so I don't get any issues communicating with our central repo, the 404 errors mentioned in edit3. I keep the entire history of the repo with the convert process, so the next time I need to send changes I'm not starting at revision 1 - in other words it isn't destructive of the Website and although I am deleting the entire outgoing repo (_ProjectName) each time I am retaining the history and yet in a position to pull / push ONLY the Website directory because it is created each time as a 'standalone' repo
A noob question... i think
I use Mercurial for my project on my laptop. How do i submit the project to an online server like codeplex?
I'm using tortoisehg and i cant find the upload interface for submit the project online...
From the command line, the command is:
hg push <url>
to push changes a remote repository.
In TortoiseHg, this is accessed through the "Synchronize" function, which seems to show up if you right-click in a Windows Explorer window but not on any file. It's also available in the workbench; the icon is 2 arrows pointing in a circle.
For these things, I find the best way to go is to use the command line interface - TortoiseHG is OK if you need to perform some common operations from the file browser, and it's a nice tool to visualize some aspects of your repository, but it doesn't implement all of mercurial's features in full detail, and it renames and bundles some operations for no apparent reason.
I don't know how things work at codeplex, but I assume it is similar to bitbucket or github, in which case here's what you'd do:
Create an empty repository on the remote end (codeplex / bitbucket / ...).
Find the remote repository's URL - for bitbucket, it is https://bitbucket.org/yourname/project, or ssh://hg#bitbucket.org/yourname/project.
From your local repository, commit all pending changes, then issue the command: hg push {remote_url}, where {remote_url} is the URL of the remote repository. This will push all committed changes from your local repository to the remote repository.
Since the remote's head revision (an empty project) is the same as the first revision in your local copy (because all hg repositories start out empty), mercurial should consider the two repositories related and accept the push.
For an introductory guide to command-line mercurial, I recommend http://hginit.com/
I created a repository with TortoiseHg. Is it possible to share it with other machines? Or do I need to install another application?
Right click your repository, TortoiseHG, Web Server menu option. That'll pop up a dialog, and you just hit the Start button.
Say your start port's 8000. Then on your other machines, right click in the folder where you want the new clone, select TortoiseHG, Clone a Repository. In the Source Path, put "http://originalmachine:8000/" and hit the "clone" button.
Web Server's great for temporary sharing. If you want something more persistent, that doesn't require a task sitting in your task bar, look here for instructions on how to get hgwebdir set up on Windows (but this requires Mercurial, rather than TortoiseHg).
Yep, just share the folder and have the other machines push/pull.
You can also right-click your repo and choose "Web server" under the TortoiseHG menu. This serves the repo over TCP/IP.