I've version-controlled my entire project on my local machine, and now I essentially want to use Mercurial to upload all my files to my server and keep it up to date.
I have a public_html folder which is a subfolder of the project root. I only want to clone that folder into a specific folder with a different name on my server (it's called htdocs on the server, and can't be renamed).
Is this possible? How?
Yeah, you can't clone only a portion of a repository. If you want only public_html it needs to be its own repository.
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I currently have a project versioned using Mercurial. On my computer, there is a .hg folder in the root of my local repository.
I want to change from Mercurial to Git, so I'm wondering if removing the .hg folder is enough to remove Mercurial versioning from this folder?
If not, what can I do? (I don't want to move the existing sources on my computer).
Yes, all the bits that make it a Mercurial repository are in the .hg folder so you can delete that to remove the Mercurial versioning.
Note though that doing this will obviously lose all your source control history as well.
Looks like there are some options to convert the repository if you want to keep that history, first hit on google:
http://arr.gr/blog/2011/10/bitbucket-converting-hg-repositories-to-git/
yes that should work.
mercurial stores chancesets and so on in the .hg folder, but you will lose all your projects history if you just delete the .hg folder and use git instead then.
I want to clone my Mercurial repository into my /public_html folder on my web server. My Mercurial project looks like this...
- /ProjectName
- /public
- /application
- /config
- /library
What I want is to just get the contents of "ProjectName" into my /public_html folder. Unfortunately, cloning the repository includes "ProjectName" and all of the subfolders are in there.
Any idea how to accomplish this without a symbolic link?
Just to put it out there, you probably don't want a full clone in your public_html unless you really want every version that ever was out there on the web. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but since you'll have a .hg in public_html people will even be able to clone your repository from it.
Instead consider using the hg archive command which exports all the files as they exist at a specific revision and places them wherever you want.
For example:
cd your_clone
hg archive --rev release /public_html
That takes the code pointed to by the release label (which could be a tag, bookmark, or branch head) and puts the files, but not a full-history clone, in /public_html.
I actually found an easy way to do this.
hg clone https://me#bitbucket.org/me/ProjectName "/home/website/public_html"
public_html has to be empty to clone the repository into it, so I moved everything out, cloned the repo, then moved the pre-existing files and folder back.
Here is a simple step that you can follow:
cd /public_html
hg init .
hg pull ../pathto/ProjectName/
This will pull all the files and folders under ProjectName in public_html without creating /public_html/ProjectName.
But it will still copy all the resources that are in the mercurial repository (Files and Folders) into your directory.
I've created my very first Mercurial repo on my machine. I used the hg init command on the directory.
Now I'm trying to use this ignore file, before uploading to BitBucket:
Mercurial .hgignore for Visual Studio 2008 projects
Where would I post Even Mien's configuration file? I can't find an hgignore file anywhere.
Thanks
Just make one in the top-level directory of the repository (the same place where the .hg folder is).
Just create a new text file named .hgignore at the root folder of your project and paste the content into it.
I have a project, which is in the Mercurial repository. In the root folder there is a .hgignore file, which states, that the "Bin" folder should be ignored (and also some other files and folders).
Now I want to clone this repository but in a way, that ALL folders and files should be cloned, also the original ignored ones. If I just clone the repository, than I get only the files, which are included in the repository thus my bin folder is missing.
How can I get cloned repository with all files in it? I want to merge these two repositories together in a while...
PS - I am working on a legacy application which has a lot of external dll-s in the bin folder of the application. I know I should put them to a seperate folder, but that's another story.
Just copy it.
Copy the whole tree from point a to point b, and the new copy will function perfectly as a repository. The only thing that would be different from a clone is the lack of hardlinks and that the default pull/push path will be set-up to be the same as the original, rather than pointing to the original. That's easy to change by editing .hg/hgrc if you want to.
An ignored file is not in your repository, so it will not be cloned. You should copy these files by hand after you have cloned the repository.
When you copy those files, I think it won't be a problem if you overwrite other files that are in your repository (they're essentially the same files after all), so as long as you don't copy the .hg folder in the root of your checkout, you'll probably be fine.
I have created and committed to Mercurial repository that was created on my local drive. I now have a remote Windows 2003 web server setup to serve repositories via hgwebdir.cgi.
How do I move the locally created repository to the web server?
It looks like an ftp of the .hg folder on the local drive to the remote web server does the trick. Am I doing it the right way. Is there a more efficient way?
Copying the .hg directory is a completely valid way to do it.
NOTE: You will probably want to exclude, remove or edit the .hg/hgrc file if you have one, as it may contain an absolute path to the original location of the repository.
You could also initialise an empty repository on the remote server, ensure that write permissions are set up correctly, and then run hg push https://wherever. I haven't measured, but I imagine that this method would be slower.