Confirmed: htaccess method of http auth broken in 1.0.2

[Peter Hosey]

On Sep 07, 2008, at 22:13:36, Patrick Waugh wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Henryk Gerlach <hgerlach at gmx.de>  
> wrote:
>> then try to push with
>> allow_push=patrick
>> in .hgrc on server
>>
>> does it work?
>
> Question:  Is the file named (as you said) .hgrc, or just hgrc??

There are four hgrc files:

$repository/.hg/hgrc
$HOME/.hgrc
$PREFIX/etc/mercurial/hgrc (e.g., if you install to /opt, then this  
would be /opt/etc/mercurial/hgrc)
/etc/mercurial/hgrc

Note that only $HOME/.hgrc has the . prefix on the hgrc filename. All  
others are named “hgrc”, without the . prefix.

There are also two hgrc.d directories: one in $PREFIX/etc/mercurial,  
and the other in /etc/mercurial.

Source: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html.

> Also, this file is the one located in the actual repos correct?

$repository/.hg/hgrc is the one located in the actual repo. Others,  
including .hgrc, are located elsewhere.

It doesn't much matter where you put the allow_push setting, as long  
as it's not overridden by another .hgrc (e.g., “allow_push=patrick”  
in ~/.hgrc overridden by “allow_push=” in repo/.hg/hgrc).

>> <LimitExcept GET POST>
>>   require valid-user
>> </LimitExcept>
>
> wouldn't that be equivilent to:
>
>> <Limit PUT>
>>   require valid-user
>> </Limit>

No. PUT is another method name. It's not some sort of abbreviation.