preliminary guide to Mercurial via workflows

[Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen]

On 11/05/2009, Kevin Greiner <greinerk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide
> <arne_bab at web.de>wrote:
>
>>
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>> Note: You can also use this workflow with a shared server instead of
>> BitBucket, either via SSH or via a shared directory. An example for an SSH
>> URL
>> with Mercurial is be ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/ArneBab/1w6 (for a shared
>> server
>> you'd replace the "hg" in the given URL with your username). For a shared
>> directory you just push as if the repository in the shared directory were
>> on
>> your local drive.
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>
>
> I wouldn't use 'hg' as the replaceable username parameter because sometimes
> hg is a valid part of hg paths. How about 'johndoe' or 'arneb' instead?
>

Might I suggest using an obviously invalid URL, such as
<ssh://user@example.com/path/to/repo>? I suspect it would seem less
obscure to someone with little experience with SSH and URLs, and it
just might be more descriptive and thus more helpful :-)

Just my 0.02€ ;-)

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Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen, stud.scient.
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