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need help setting up a raspberry pi to serve mercurial repositories

How do I setup lighttpd on a raspberry pi to serve mercurial repositories via hgweb.cgi? I have got this working on a windows PC via some instructions on modifying the hgweb file etc so that IIS can ...
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How to use code repo so that same user from multiple PCs can access it in Netbeans IDE

I am planning to work on a software project using Netbeans-- now I want to work across multiple PCs - how can I set up Netbeans and the Git/Mercurial repo so that I can for eg-- make code changes in ...
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Using Mercurial in Emacs

It seems that there are a lot of different ways to work with Mercurial from within Emacs. (In case it matters, I'm using Emacs 24.1.1 and Mercurial 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 12.10.) I have found the following ...
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How should I install Mercurial on AIX 6.5 without root privilege?

Is there a way to install Mercurial on AIX 6.5 without root? I'm a physics student and am developing code on the IBM cluster in our college and don't have root privilege. Several weeks ago I decided ...
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Monit vs Source Control: permission problems

I'm trying to be good. That's my big mistake. I'm being good by having process monitoring: I have monit watching some key processes, and restarting them if they fail. I'm being good by not running ...
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“hg commit/diff” crash on my Mac OS X

I just run hg commit -m "xxx" on my Mac and then got the message: zsh: illegal hardware instruction hg commit and hg diff also be crash, but the hg commit is OK. When I save the commit message with ...
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On Windows 7 how do you remove programs that add themselves to the right click menu? [duplicate]

After installing Tortoisehg workbench whenever I right click on an icon or the desktop on the menu it has options for Hg Workbench and Tortoisehg. I don't want that, how do I get rid of it? By the ...
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working with libs of 64 bit system under 32 bit system

I had a 64 bit ubuntu 10.04 system.I messed up with ubuntu-desktop,which was refusing me to login. So i have installed ubuntu 12.04 32 bit system through ISO image in a DVD, keeping the same ...
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How to version control for a solo author creating non-programming documents?

I'm a writer, not a programmer. I'm just now for the first time learning about version control and how it works, and I am wondering how version control could streamline my workflow. For years, I've ...
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How do I convert an hg repository to git?

I found an open-source project which is available via hg only. Now I want to put it onto GitHub, with my own changes alongside the previous commit history. Hg-git allows you to use git commands to ...
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How can I download Mercurial and be sure I have an untampered copy?

I'd like to download Mercurial, (not the "Tortoise" version) but can only find the download link http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/windows/Mercurial-2.4.2.exe which isn't an HTTPS link. ...
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Raspberry Pi, Mercurial and nginx

I am posting this here, as apparently, I am unlikely to get any help at raspberry pi. Please bear with me. I have a small problem with configuring Mercurial to work with nginx using unix sockets on ...
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Mercurial: how to show branches in autocompletion

It is possible to update to a specific tag or branch with the hg update <branch-or-tag> command. However, the built-in completion only shows me tags (not branches). So when i type hg update and ...
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How to verify download of TortoiseHg software for Windows

When installing software onto my PC, I generally like to run a hash check against my download before installing it. Many download pages provide an MD5sum to use for this kind of check. See: Some ...
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'abort: no repository found' when trying to install Vim through Mercurial

I'm new to Linux (which I'm setting up to start teaching myself web development). I am installing Vim, and in order to do so installed Mercurial. hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg vim seemed to ...
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Mercurial Install

I'm new to Linux (which I'm setting up to start teaching myself web development). I am installing Vim, and in order to do so installed Mercurial. hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg vim ...
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Mercurial confusion - commit / push, backouts

I'm trying to set up a repository on a shared filesystem. I'm using Mercurial 2.1.2 on a Windows-based architecture. I start with an empty folder on the shared filesystem and create a repository in ...
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Compose Mercurial commands from Toroise-Hg and send to remote linux using ssh

I use ToroiseHg Workbench to manage repositories on my local windows machine, and I like how TortoiseHg composes the commands based on clicks I make using the GUI. But I only know how to use ...
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Mercurial ACL Groups causing 502 error

am setting up my mercurial repo using the ACL extension. When I configure the ACL.deny section I am trying to deny a specific group of users. When blocking them individually ACL works as intended and ...
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Grab source from Google Code using wget or curl?

Is it possible to grab the source-code from a Google Code repository (hg) using wget or curl? Else using Python? Thanks for all suggestions FYI: I'm on a shared WebFaction host, so can't install hg ...
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Limiting stored revisions in Mercurial

Planning to put a large number of binary files (each typically ~4-7 MB) under Mercurial control. I won't need all revisions of any file ever changed, so what can I do to prevent the inexorable growth ...
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Less or More in Windows?

Is there a command in the Windows DOS prompt that is equivalent to the UNIX less or more? Basically, the problem is that when I type hg log, the output has too many lines to fit on the screen and I ...
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View old command output from a closed terminal

I ran hg pull hg up to check in my working copy to the Mercurial repository. I got some warning messages in the terminal. I closed the terminal and now I want to see those messages again. Are ...
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How to access file tree in hg (mercurial) web interface?

There is a hg web browser here: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7 How Can I access file and folder tree of this repository (most recent version) without downloading gz/bz2/zip? I want to view ...
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What port(s) etc. need to be open on a firewall to allow successful operation with BitBucket

Over the weekend, our IT department installed an updated firewall. As a result, we are no longer able to pull from (and push to) the repository on BitBucket. Attempting to perform a Mercurial ...
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How to make Mercurial find updated version of Python?

My system is RedHat 5 Linux and has default python 2.4 installed. In order to execute Mercurial 1.81, I tried to upgrade python from 2.4 to 2.6 and I thought I saved it in a different directory. I ...
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Git repository migrated from Mercurial shows unnamed branches

https://github.com/lextm/sharpsnmplib/network This repository network graph shows lots of branches (were created in Mercurial), but none of them has a name. Is there a way to add names?
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Mercurial: what has influence on the language used for output

Based on this question - what setting is responsible for the language Mercurial (hg.exe) uses to display output? I remember I saw German output, but now see English one. What could be the reason?
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How to get the closest revision to the given one that contains other changes than .hgtags only? [closed]

I have a revision hash key. I would like to get the closest revision that contains anything, but the .hgtags. For instance, consider the following fragment of a Mercurial history: d:\CI\NC\8.0>hg ...
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Moving a Mercurial repository between OS's

I have been working with a local Mercurial repository on my Ubuntu PC for my personal documents. I am planning on using Windows more frequently, so I would like to move the repository over to my ...
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Package dependency errors while installing mercurial in Fedora

I'm trying to install mercurial in my Fedora 14 using yum and get the following error.help to resolve this. yum --enablerepo=rpmforge --disablerepo=remi --disablerepo=fedora install ...
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How do I install Mercurial from source on Fedora 8

I have a installed Fedora 8 on AWS. Currently it has Mercurial 1.1 running on it. However I need to upgrade Mercurial to be at least version 1.7.5 (or above). Can I compile latest Mercurial on Fedora ...
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Cross-platform Mercurial settings

I have project files in Dropbox, VC-ed with Mercurial. This way I can work on the same code in Windows at work and in Linux at home. The central repository is on our institute Samba file server, which ...
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Why does Mercurial think my source files are binary?

I've been working on a programming project in Notepad, so far. Today, I opened my source files in an IDE to debug one thing, and the IDE converted saved my files as binary (or so Mercurial reports, ...
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TortoiseHg and hg purge: do they work together?

TortoiseHg has settings to enable the Mercurial Purge extension. But does it actually have a drop down menu or something so that you can purge a directory without having to go to the command line? Or ...
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How to use Git Extensions with BitBucket/Mercurial repository?

I a have repository on both github.com and bitbucket.org, and I am very familiar with using Git Extensions for all repository functions on GitHub. When I started using bitbucket.org repo's I have to ...
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Install Mercurial 1.9.1 (isapi) on win2k3

I have been trying to get Mercurial installed on my 32bit 2003 server and i have been running into some issues. i have followed these instructions (which is the most current that i can find) with the ...
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How to deploy only select files through BitBucket

I'm hosting a small php-based website through Bitbucket. I have some files under version control that I don't want to deploy in production (helpful scripts, .xcf files, etc). Is there some way to just ...
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Mercurial no longer working in NetBeans?

I have been using Mercurial inside NetBeans for a while now. For the past few weeks now Windows Explorer has been crashing for various reasons, including every time I right click. Finally someone ...
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SVN to Mercurial conversion in windows

I am trying to convert a bunch of projects from SVN to Mercurial but I am having some trouble finding my way. Everywhere I look for, it is said that I have to add the [Extensions] tag in .hgrc. I ...
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Gollum-like wiki based on Mercurial

Is there a Gollum-like Wiki (Gollum uses a Git repo to store its pages) based on Mercurial (instead of Git)?
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Help with reinstalling Mercurial

I used Mercurial on my old computer without any trouble a month ago, but it broke on Friday and I needed to reinstall. Now when I try to do anything from my repository directory I get the error: ...
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Merging Mercurial conflicts in Netbeans

If you look in the image below.. The top left is my changes: $static_pages = 'terms|privacy|about|home|media'; The top right is some one elses changes. $static_pages = ...
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The “Add Selected Files” command of the Visualhg extension crashes VS2010

I just installed the Mercurial Source Control Plugin (visualhg) for MS Visual Studio 2010 to try out some features of source control management systems. When I clicked on the "Add Selected Files" ...
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Revert a deleted file several commits later

So I started down a new branch of development and decided that some files needed to go. Several commits later I realise that a certain decision was wrong and I need a couple of the files back. My ...
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How to deal with binary files in Google Code?

How do you deal with binary files in your Google Code Mercurial repository? I have heard something about bfiles extension and such, but I do not know where to begin. If you are going to say I should ...
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Mercurial Textmate bundle broken after switch to 1.5.10

After I left Textmate 1.5.9 for 1.5.10 the Textmate Mercurial bundle didn't find hg anymore. Probably due to this change: [CHANGED] Commands (without shebang) no longer source the default shell ...
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Is there a Windows Explorer extension that shows an inline command prompt?

Does anybody know of a Windows Explorer extension that will add a pane giving an inline command prompt, set to the current directory? I know that on Windows 7 I can Shift-Right Click and get Open ...
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Mercurial set up ACL

I'm trying to set up ACL. I've got it mostly working. However, I've got a couple of specific questions. Basically, I'm trying to set up a group @group that will be allowed to access a bunch of ...
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Installing Mercurial on Debian using apt-get

I am trying to install Mercurial using apt-get on a web server running Debian. I would prefer to have the latest stable version of Mercurial but I would be happy with anything reasonably recent. I ...

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