Getting hg serve to work

[Steve Borho]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Jeffrey Barish<jeff_barish at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to get hg serve to work from a remote system.  I think that I'm
> almost there.  I have the server running in the directory that is the top of
> the repository (/home/user/top/of/repo).  From the remote system, I do
> hg clone http://nn.nnn.nnn.nnn/home/user/top/of/repo.  Nothing happens.  The
> command just hangs.  I get no response at the server.  I can telnet to the
> server and if I type help I get a response at both ends.  I suspect that I'm
> giving the wrong clone command on the remote system, but I've run out of
> ideas of variants to try.

By default, hg serve listens on port 8000, and you typically need to
provide no path if you are serving from a single repository:

hg clone http://nn.nnn.nnn.nnn:8000/

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Steve Borho