Prevent pushing of commits that add to closed branches

Question

How can I configure a Mercurial server to restrict commits to a named branch once it has been closed? I only want the repository administrator to have the ability to reopen the branch.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/PruningDeadBranches says that closed changesets can be identified by "close=1 in the changeset's extra field". It's not clear how to read a changeset's extra field using the Mercurial API.

Answer 1

There is an ACL extension that is distributed along with Mercurial. You should be able to specify the frozen branches by denying commit to every one except the administrator. I am not sure if named branches can leverage this facility.

• https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/AclExtension

Configuring acls:

[acl.deny.branches] 
frozen-branch = *

[acl.allow.branches]
branch_name = admin