Using the Mercurial version control system

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About Mercurial

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Creating a repository

hg init repository

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Publishing a repository

1. Log in to your account using SSH.
2. Type the following command:
   cd ~/public_html/cgi-bin
   
3. In the cgi-bin directory, create a file. Users will use this filename to access the repository, so you probably want to use a name related to the repository that you’re publishing.
4. Copy the following text and paste it into the file you just created:
   #!/usr/bin/env python
   #
   # An example hgweb CGI script, edit as necessary
   # See also https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/PublishingRepositories
   # Path to repo or hgweb config to serve (see 'hg help hgweb')
   config = "/home/username/repository"
   # Uncomment and adjust if Mercurial is not installed system-wide:
   #import sys; sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib")
   # Uncomment to send python tracebacks to the browser if an error occurs:
   #import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
   from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
   from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb, wsgicgi
   application = hgweb(config)
   wsgicgi.launch(application)
   
5. In the text that you just pasted into the file, replace username with your hosting.com account username, and replace repository with the path to your repository.
6. Save your changes to the file.
7. At the command prompt, type the following command. Replace filename with the name of the file that you created in step 3:
   chmod 755 filename
   
8. The repository is now accessible on the web at the URL http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/ filename, where example.com represents your domain name, and filename represents the name of the file you created in step 3. For example, to clone this repository, you would type the following command:
   hg clone http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/filename
   

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More information

• To visit the official Mercurial website, please visit https://www.mercurial-scm.org.
• To view a complete online Mercurial tutorial, please visit http://hginit.com.
• To view a free online book about Mercurial, please visit https://book.mercurial-scm.org/.