Accessing a remote repository on a web server using ftp with user and password

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

I forgot to say: everyone publishes their own differential bundle,
otherwise you'd get concurrent update issues.
-peo

On 9/13/07, Peter Arrenbrecht <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is what we do. Publish bundles (see "hg help bundle"). They are
> quite compact and we only publish the whole repo on releases, then
> publish differential bundles (containing diffs against last release
> only) for ongoing work. Works pretty well. To get the updates into a
> local copy, you download the bundle and then "hg pull bundle.file"
> from it. You don't get the fancy web gui, but you can always run that
> locally on your own copy of the repo.
> -peo
>
> On 9/13/07, Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
> > Paul Moore ha scritto:
> > > On 13/09/2007, Massimo Manca <massimo.manca at micronengineering.it> wrote:
> > >> I have my company web pages hosted on a web server maintained by a
> > >> provider, I have also unlimited disk space so I would use some of it to
> > >> public our repositories. I am investigating to find a sw better then cvs
> > >> that may manage this situation. Actually I  would test Mercurial and Bazaar.
> > >>
> > >> - I can access to the space using ftp (read/write) and http (read), I
> > >> haven't sftp, ssh, https, aftp available.
> > >
> > > I believe Bazaar handles read/write over FTP, but Mercurial does not.
> > >
> > > Having said that, Bazaar requires certain features in FTP - notably
> > > the ability to append to an existing file - that not all FTP servers
> > > offer (my ISP doesn't :-(). That may be due to get fixed in future
> > > versions, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
> > >
> >
> > Is it possible to read the required repository files, to modify them
> > locally and then recopy them to the remote host?
> >
> > This is very inefficient, but may work.
> >
> >
> > Regards  Manlio Perillo
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