dotencode property through mercurial-server issue

Question

Just want to notice: this issue is only about sharing mercurial using mercurial-server

Steps to reproduce:

1. create new repository with hg init

2. try to clone it through mercurial-server:

   hg clone ssh://[email protected]/test2 .
   remote: abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!
   прервано: no suitable response from remote hg!
   

3. edit .hg/requires file, remove dotencode property

4. repeat step 2:

   hg clone ssh://[email protected]/test2 .
   изменений не найдено
   updating to branch default
   0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
   

Any ideas why it is happening and how I could fix it?

ps: it is mercurial 1.9 installed, and the command is performed from the same machine.

Answer 1

That happened because:

1. I had mercurial site-packages installed in both /usr (new, from 1.9) and /usr/local (old, from 1.6). And hg-ssh had taken the old ones.

2. hg-ssh needs to be patched a little

   dispatch.dispatch(['init', repo])
   

   should be replaced with

   dispatch.dispatch(dispatch.request(['init', repo]))
   

   and

   dispatch.dispatch(['-R', repo, 'serve', '--stdio'])
   

   with

   dispatch.dispatch(dispatch.request(['-R', repo, 'serve', '--stdio']))
   

   accordingly

Answer 2

The most recent release of mercurial-server, version 1.2, fixes this problem.