Re: [9fans] Mercurial port is official

[Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:40 AM, balaji
<balaji.srinivasa+plan9@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is great news. Bichued fixed some of fgb's intial port work to
> make it work on plan9.
> If i'm not mistaken its to do with threading etc, but it was working
> well, including hgweb.
> I'm curious to know (ofcourse without reading the links sent below) if
> it supports https/ssh based checkin/checkouts.
> This was one reason why we could not use it in a public environment.

Hi Bal,

HTTP/HTTPS should work without any problems (we've been using it for
the last year and a half or so on older versions of Mercurial with no
problems). SSH is a bit tougher. Mercurial assumes that OpenSSH is
installed on the system. Unfortunately, even if the openssh package is
installed there were a couple of problems we came across in Python
itself in the pipe handling.

Anecdotally speaking, Mercurial has been much more pleasant over HTTP
- we haven't looked back since moving our repositories over. To reduce
some of the pain, use of the scheme extension allows us to shorten up
the repository URLs:

hg clone hg://src/someproject

In /lib/mercurial/hgrc:

[schemes]
hg = https://hg.mysite.com/

Cheers,

Steve