Serving multiple repositories with hg. How?

Question

The wiki mentions that this can be done under the hg service, but there are no examples (for example, a sample webdir-conf file). Yes, I know that it would be better to do all this under Apache, but this is a local machine, and the hg service just makes sense to us.

Answer 1

As you hinted, you are using the hg serve --webdir-conf FILE call, and the webdir.conf format is the same as for hgweb.cgi. These examples also apply to you:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/HgWebDirStepByStep#Preparing_the_config

so that you can do the most basic:

 [paths] /repos = /webdata/hg_repos/* 

where repos/ is the path of your local system to the directory containing the repositories.

(and you're right, it would be much better to spend time on this in Apache).

Answer 2

use this in your webdir configuration (for example)

 foo.config << EOL [paths] power = power/Repo billable = /path/to/billable/Repo EOL 

hg serve --webdir-conf foo.config

Assuming your repositories live in different places ...

Answer 3

Alternatively, you can use RhodeCode, a standalone application written on pylons.

"RhodeCode is a Pylons-based Mercurial repository browser / control engine built with push / pull and full-text search and permissions."

Here you can see the demo.

http://demo.rhodecode.org

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