Mercurial won't send emails - mercurial

I'm trying to make Mercurial on Windows send emails when I commit code. The Mercurial.ini file contains,
[ui]
username = PherricOxide
[tortoisehg]
ui.language = en
summarylen = 70
messagewrap = 80
closeci = False
engmsg = True
statustab = 0
[extensions]
hgext.notify =
[hooks]
changegroup.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
incoming.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
[email]
from = repository#company.com
[smtp]
host = inetmail.company.net
[web]
baseurl = http://dev/...
[notify]
sources = serve push pull bundle
test = True
config = \temp\subscription.conf
template = \ndetails: {baseurl}{webroot}/rev/{node|short}\nchangeset: {rev}:{node|short}\nuser: {author}\ndate: {date|date}\ndescription:\n{desc}\n
maxdiff = 300
However, it never prints anything with test=True or emails anything with test=False.
A push shows,
C:\test>hg push -v \test2
pushing to \test2
searching for changes
1 changesets found
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
calling hook changegroup.notify: hgext.notify.hook
calling hook incoming.notify: hgext.notify.hook
And a commit doesn't seem to be triggering the hook at all,
C:\test>hg -v commit -m "test"
test.txt
committed changeset 11:a4ed0680b183
Does anyone with more Mercurial skills than I have any ideas on why it seems broken?

Commit doesn't trigger the hook, only pushes to the repository will, that's what changegroup and incoming do. You probably only want one of those two also.
What's in you \temp\subscription.conf file? If youre [reposubs] or [usersubs] entries in that file are missing/wrong you won't get any emails.

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How to get Beyond Compare to handle .hgtags files correctly?

We recently switched from P4Merge to BeyondCompare for working with our Hg repositories.
With P4Merge, when you merged branches, there was always a conflict in .hgtags, but just letting P4Merge do it's default action resulted in the correct merged .hgtags.
With BeyondCompare - it seems to just take one of the .hgtags, and not merge any of the differences. This results in loosing LOTS of tags.
How can we configure BeyondCompare to actually merge the changes for that file?
Using Beyond Compare 4.1.9 and Mercurial 3.7.3 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04, running hg merge after a pull and update for a conflicted .hgtags launched the .hgtags files in Beyond Compare's Text Merge and allowed me to merge them. It's possible there's an issue with your .hgrc configuration.
Here's the .hgrc that worked for diff and merge on my Ubuntu system:
[extensions]
# uncomment these lines to enable some popular extensions
# (see "hg help extensions" for more info)
#
# pager =
# progress =
# color =
hgext.extdiff =
[extdiff]
cmd.bcomp = bcompare
opts.bcomp = -ro
[merge-tools]
bcomp.executable = bcompare
bcomp.args = $local $other $base $output
bcomp.priority = 1
bcomp.premerge = True
bcomp.gui = True
[ui]
merge = bcomp
If you're using Windows or Mac, please let me know.

Mercurial: clone only a branch of a repository

in my mercurial project I have some users that can clone the repository, but I need that they only can see some branches.
For example they can see only the "stable" branch so I can be sure they will never try unstable code.
Or customer X can see only the branch with his customizations.
I know I can extract the source code of the release and give it to them. But for "non technical" reasons they want access to the repository.
Is it possible?
Thanks,
Mario
You can use the ACL extension, in which you define [acl.deny.branches] and [acl.allow.branches].
The following sample config is taken from the ACL documentation page.
[hooks]
# Use this if you want to check access restrictions at commit time
pretxncommit.acl = python:hgext.acl.hook
# Use this if you want to check access restrictions for pull, push,
# bundle and serve.
pretxnchangegroup.acl = python:hgext.acl.hook
[acl]
# Check whether the source of incoming changes is in this list where
# "serve" == ssh or http, and "push", "pull" and "bundle" are the
# corresponding hg commands.
sources = serve
[acl.groups]
# If a group name is not defined here, and Mercurial is running under
# a Unix-like system, the list of users will be taken from the OS.
# Otherwise, an exception will be raised.
designers = user1, user2
[acl.deny.branches]
# Everyone is denied to the frozen branch:
frozen-branch = *
# A bad user is denied on all branches:
* = bad-user
[acl.allow.branches]
# A few users are allowed on branch-a:
branch-a = user-1, user-2, user-3
# Only one user is allowed on branch-b:
branch-b = user-1
# The super user is allowed on any branch:
* = super-user
# Everyone is allowed on branch-for-tests:
branch-for-tests = *

Automating Hg notify config updates

Hosting Mercurial on a windows box thru IIS.
I have a root directory where I put all of my repos
d:\repos
- ProjectA
- .hg
- hgrc
- ProjectB
- .hg
- hgrc
- ProjectC
- .hg
- hgrc
All of the repos' hgrc files setup the notify extension with:
config =d:\hg\Repositories\NotificationList.txt
That way I have a single file to manage all of the notification recipients, like the wiki describes:
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/NotifyExtension
But the wiki makes mention of controlling that NotificationList.txt file thru it's own repository? How can I do that? If I create a separate repo at d:\repos\HgNotify and have the NotificationList.txt file in there, users can change, commit and push back, but when the push occurs, NotificationList.txt does not get updated on the hg server.
Is there a way to update that file somehow? Am I missing a key setup on my Hg server? Or do I need to use a post-push hook to deploy that file?
Update 1
I added the details from Tim's answer and I kept getting HTTP 500: Server Error on the push. I finally figure out how to trace the python calls (python -m win32traceutil), and here is what seems to be the problem:
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\mercurial\util.py", line 402, in hgexecutable
exe = findexe('hg') or os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'argv'
It doesn't seem to be able to find hg.exe.
Update 2
I installed TortoiseHg and rebooted the system. Now I get:
emote: added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
remote: notify: sending 1 subscribers 1 changes
remote: warning: changegroup.update hook exited with status 1
So that makes be think that it has found the hg.exe, but it is not doing its job, because the file does not get updated
Update 3
Found my solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8023594/698
The command line I ended up using was:
changegroup = cmd /c hg update
I also added:
[ui]
debug=true
To my hgrc. Those two combined gave me a lot more meaningful messages. In the end I saw "Access denied". I gave Users full permission, but I am not sure why giving IUSR full permission didn't work. Something I'll have to dig into at a later time.
On the server repo containing your notification list you need to add a changegroup hook:
[hooks]
changegroup.update = hg update -C
or if you want to ensure the repository is always clean:
[extensions]
purge =
[hooks]
changegroup.update = hg update -C && hg purge --all

tortoise hg : how to get notified whe something pushed to a central repo

i am using Mercurial for version control. One central repo is shared among the team and any of us can push / pull to it.
How can i get notified when any other user push something to the central repo.
I have tried to edit my hgrc file as per the https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/NotifyExtension
as below
[extensions]
hgext.notify =
[hooks]
# Enable either changegroup or incoming.
# changegroup will send one email for each push,
# whereas incoming sends one email per changeset.
changegroup.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
#incoming.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
[email]
from = **myemailaddresshere**
[smtp]
host = localhost
# presently it is necessary to specify the baseurl for the notify
# extension to work. It can be a dummy value if your repo isn't
# available via http
[web]
baseurl = **http://repoip:port/**
[notify]
# multiple sources can be specified as a whitespace separated list
sources = serve push pull bundle
# set this to False when you're ready for mail to start sending
test = True
[reposubs]
* = **toemailaddresshere**
#config = /path/to/subscription/file
# you can override the changeset template here, if you want.
# If it doesn't start with \n it may confuse the email parser.
# here's an example that makes the changeset template look more like hg log:
template = \ndetails: {baseurl}{webroot}/rev/{node|short}\nchangeset: {rev}:{node|short}\nuser: {author}\ndate: {date|date}\ndescription:\n{desc}\n
maxdiff = 300 # max lines of diffs to include (0=none, -1=all)
then i tried to push sme changes . But this didnt fire any email.
Can you please check what is error in my .hgrc file
Your Notify extension is configured to be in test mode. Maybe setting test = False will help?
template and maxdiff should be in the [notify] section. In your sample, they are in the [reposubs] section.
You can use hg help to check if the notify extension is enabled.

Mercurial does not send emails using changenotify

I set up a http central Mercurial repository and try to send emails on every push. I follow instructions from mercurial page and from http://morecode.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/setting-up-mercurial-to-e-mail-on-a-commit/.
Push works fine, but I don't see any notify message at all. Please help me.
My .hg/hgrc in my repository folder of my client looks like this
[extensions]
hgext.notify=
[hooks]
changegroup.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
[email]
from = what#gmail.com
[smtp]
host = smtp.gmail.com
username = what#gmail.com
password = ohyea
port = 587
tls = true
[web]
baseurl = http://1.1.1.1/repo_name
[notify]
sources = serve push pull bundle
# set this to False when you're ready for mail to start sending
test = False
config = /home/myhome/something/subscription.conf
template = \ndetails: {baseurl}{webroot}/rev/{node|short}\nchangeset:{rev}:node|short}\nuser: {author}\ndate: {date|date}\ndescription:\n{desc}\n
maxdiff = 300
My /home/myhome/something/subscription.conf looks like
[reposubs]
# key is glob pattern, value is comma-separated list of subscriber emails
* = sometestemail#gmail.com
I save and my result looks like below, if you notice I don't see any notify message at all
pushing to http://1.1.1.1/repo_name
searching for changes
remote: adding changesets
remote: adding manifests
remote: adding file changes
remote: added 2 changesets with 7376 changes to 7376 files
[Update:]
I found that there was no hgext folder in my system. So I manually downloaded the source matching my hg version and updated my hgrc as below, and still it does not work. Any help please.
[extensions]
notify= /path/to/notify.py
[Update 2:]
Thanks Ry4an - I tried it, still no luck.
In my webserver
Under /var/www and /var/www/hg
I created .hgrc files, just not sure which one is my webroot, so I did at both places with contents
[trusted]
users=user_name
this user name is the username in my client from where I'm trying to push to the repo.
on my client
in the .hg/hgrc of my repo, I added trusted section
[trusted]
users=user_name
The above procedure did not help
Second approach
on my client,
under my repo's .hg, I did
chown www-data:www-data hgrc
and when I tried to push I got some message while pushing saying
sending capabilities command
capabilities: changegroupsubset stream lookup pushkey unbundle=HG10GZ,HG10BZ,HG10UN branchmap
sending heads command
searching for changes
common changesets up to 6ef19c49143a
sending branchmap command
ignoring untrusted configuration option hooks.changegroup.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
This ignoring command does not appear during the first approach, only after I change the ownership of hgrc, this pops up.
It's likely a trust issue, but let's hit a few other things first:
A) Switch the extension load to:
[extensions]
notify=
The hgext part is no longer necessary, but doesn't hurt. Giving the full path to the extension is more fragile in the case of future updates. The raw notify= syntax is sufficient for extensions that come with Mercurial and notify always does.
B) Switch the test = false to test = true it will help you debug this -- it sends the email to Stdout, which is handy.
Okay, those two done, let's look at trust. Mercurial's trust system is built around the idea that not just anyone should be able to get you to run code. Imagine if your repo's .hg/hgrc file had a section in it like:
[hooks]
pre-push = rm -rf ~
When I pushed to it it would delete my home directory. That would bum me out. To avoid that happening Mercurial will only load/run hgrc files that it trusts, and you tell it what to trust with [trusted] sections in your hgrc. When you're pushing over ssh you're effectively logging into the remote machine and it's your own ~/.hgrc that probably states what other hgrc files you're willing to execute.
HTTP is special though. Even though you may be authenticating you're probably not running Mercurial on the remote system as yourself. It's probably some some non-user user like www-data, www, apache, or noone depending on how your web server is configured, so... you need to make that repo's .hg/hgrc' owned (or group-owned) by an user (or group) that the webserver user trusts. To achieve that you can eitherchwownthe.hg/hgrcfile over to the web server user, or find the web server's home directory (often/var/www) and create a.hgrcfile in there with a[trusted]block saying that the web server user trusts whomever it is that owns the repo's.hg/hgrc` file.
If I'm right about what's going on the tell tale sign would be in your webserver's errors log where you'd see a lot of messages like "Not trusting /path/to/repo/.hg/hgrc owned by someuser".
TL;DR: Make sure your web server user trusts (in the hgrc sense) the owner of the .hg/hgrc that's specifying the hook.
This worked for me when communicating with an Exchange Server:
[hostfingerprints]
<my exchange FQDN> = 2a:f3:89:69:13:b2:1e:3a:c2:fe:f9:7f:de:b3:39:e7:82:8e:99:93
[extensions]
notify =
[hooks]
changegroup.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
[email]
from = Mercurial Notification <noreply#mydomain>
[smtp]
host = <exchange FQDN>
tls = true
[notify]
sources = serve push pull bundle
test = False
maxdiff = 300
[reposubs]
* = Cameron Rich <cameron.rich#mydomain.com>
Put the above in the hgrc file in your repository.
e.g. C:\repositories\test.hg\hgrc