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

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

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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