I have a local machine ("laptop") and a shared Mercurial repository on another machine ("server").
The shared repository is set up as a multi-repository as described in the Mercurial documentation using Apache, the hgwebdir.cgi script and Mercurial 1.4.
The setup works in the sense that I can browse the projects (repositories) in the web browser, I can clone and pull from the server, and I can push from the laptop when the project/repository already exists on the server.
But I cannot create a new project on the laptop (hg init, do stuff, hg commit) and push it to the shared multi-repository (hg push http://server/hg/my-new-project-name) - I get "abort: HTTP Error 404: Not Found", presumably because the directory/project repository does not exist yet.
How can I push a new project/directory structure to a Mercurial running elsewhere? I couldn't find anything in the documentation, how do you guys do it?
Forking is as simple as cloning the repo. When it comes to creating the fork on your server, that depends on the software your server runs - especially if you have no access to the server... a login would greatly help. Otherwise make sure that you have the server run a software like kallithea.
Strictly speaking, the term repository refers to the directory named . hg (dot hg) in the repository root directory. The repository root directory is the parent directory of the . hg directory. Mercurial stores its internal data structures – the metadata – inside that .
You cannot create new remote repositories over http with the built-in functionality. Your options are to either:
hg init
where you want the repo. After that you can push to the new empty repoUpdate
I tried using Dropbox as described below, but couldn't make it sufficiently reliable, so I'm not recommending that option.
Original answer below, kept for context.
/update
I found one more option: Skipping both http and ssh altogether and using Dropbox for shared repos.
For the one-person-multiple-computers scenario, it looks like the simplest option of the lot, and you get backups as a nice side effect.
Here is a discussion on Hacker News
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