Good or Best way to copy a new local repository to a remote hg apache server?

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Hi folks,
I'm rewriting a script I've been using that recreates a local repository
onto a remote apache server.
The local machine is often windows, and the remote one is a Linux apache
server. 
My script is a bit complicated, because instead of just copying the whole
repository,  it 

)logs onto the remote machine,
)creates a new empty repository,
)pulls and merges with it, 
)pushes all the local contents.

I chose this method  to avoid platform differences, and try to mitigate
versioning problems with hg itself.

I was wondering if anybody else had a different or better way to do the same
thing.
Here is my old bash script. Yes it needs a complete re-write, that's why I'm
posting here :)

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#!/bin/bash
browsercommand=firefox
localrepo=$1

if ! [[ -d $localrepo ]] ; then
    echo "Local repository $localrepo does not exist or could not be read."
    exit 16
fi
set -e 

if ! [[ -d $localrepo/.hg ]] ; then
    echo "Local directory $localrepo exists, but is not a Mercural
repository..."
    hg init $localrepo
fi

nurepository=`basename "$1"`
description=$2
checkoutdir="$nurepository""_checked"
repopath="\$HOME/repositories/$nurepository"
litralizer_ex='s,[]/\\$*[],\\\\&,g'


B=`basename $1`
P=`dirname $1`

cd $P
	
if [ `pwd` != "/" ]
 then
	FULLNAME=`pwd`/$B
else
	FULLNAME=/$B
fi


if [[ -n CYGWIN ]]; then
    message=`cygpath -w $FULLNAME | sed -e $litralizer_ex`
else
    message=`echo $FULLNAME | sed -e $litralizer_ex`
fi
cooked_des=`echo -e $description| sed -e $litralizer_ex`". "

export DISPLAY=none:0.0
export SSH_ASKPASS=dummy_script.sh
export HGHOST=hg.localnet.org
export HGUSER=me
export HG_USER_PASSWORD=passwordA
export HG_REPO_PASSWORD=passwordB
export REMOTE_REPO_URI="http://$HGHOST/$nurepository"
remo_repo_uri="http://$HGUSER:$HG_USER_PASSWORD@$HGHOST/$nurepository"


echo $REMOTE_REPO_URI

ssh-add < "/dev/null"

hg  --repository $localrepo add 
hg  --repository $localrepo commit -m "Checkin for subsequent push to
$REMOTE_REPO_URI" 

echo "Creating new repository for project $nurepository at "
$REMOTE_REPO_URI

ssh -q hguser@$HGHOST "mkdir -p $repopath"
ssh -q hguser@$HGHOST "hg init $repopath"
ssh -q hguser@$HGHOST "cat \$HOME/hgrc | sed -e \"s,PLACEHOLDER,$cooked_des