Creating SSH server on Windows for Mercurial

Question

I'm struggling to find an answer for this, although it seems like such a common thing. Perhaps I'm approaching it from the wrong angle.

I would like to set up an SSH server so people can clone and push to a repository on a Windows machine. I.e.

hg clone ssh://bob@MY_COMPUTER/C:\repository

I've installed Bitvise SSH Server and have it set up and running and I am using TortoiseHG to manage the repository. I can connect via SSH to this computer: ssh bob@MY_COMPUTER. However, Mercurial seems unable to find the repository.

What am I missing? Do I need to set TortoiseHG up to start publishing the repository somehow?

Answer 1

Read carefully hg help url and eliminate all Windows-isms from URL

• path is relative to the remote user's home directory by default. Use an extra slash at the start of a path to specify an absolute path:

  ssh://example.com//tmp/repository

I suppose, for Win-hosts absolute path will start from the root of drive with $HOME of connected user, but relative path is more predictable solution