Getting hg serve to work

[Greg Ward]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Jeffrey Barish<jeff_barish at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> hg clone http://nn.nnn.nnn.nnn:8000/
>
> Thanks.  That command created a clone, but it was in a directory called
> nn.nnn.nnn.nnn:8000.  I tried

You're the second person to notice this quirk in the last couple of
days.  Hmmmm.  The last person who did had a good suggestion, which
was to allow http://n.n.n.n:p/reponame as a valid prefix for 'hg
serve' URLs.  AFAIK no one has jumped up to implement this idea.

> hg clone http://nn.nnn.nnn.nnn:8000 clone-repo
>
> That worked.  Since 8000 is the default, I don't understand why I have to
> specify it.

8000 is the default port for 'hg serve', not for all HTTP servers.
Usually when people put a Mercurial repo online, they use hgweb.cgi
behind a regular web server (like Apache or lighttpd).  'hg serve' is
really meant for quick 'n dirty one-off web serving.

> Moreover, the example in the O'Sullivan book doesn't have the
> port number.

Where precisely is this example?  Could be a bug in the book.  Nobody's perfect.

Greg