Tag Archives: Mercurial

Mercurial … what happened to you?

Posted on 2026-09-27 by Oliver

Mercurial used to be the VCS that I looked to for several reasons. You can easily clone locally or to a server with the only prerequisite being a remote hg binary

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In which Hg repo is the hook getting executed?

Posted on 2013-02-07 by Oliver

REPOPATH=$(hg showconfig|sed -n ‘s/^bundle\.mainreporoot=//p’) Based on this, btw, I came up with the following hook in the hgrc file: [hooks] changegroup.bundlerepo = hg bundle -a $(hg showconfig|sed -n ‘s/^bundle\.mainreporoot=//p’)/.hg/bundled.hg The idea is to create a bundle with all revisions whenever … Continue reading →

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Mercurial woes

Posted on 2013-02-07 by Oliver

Today I stumbled over an awkward issue. Pulling from a repo mounted read-only I always got: searching for changes adding changesets transaction abort! rollback completed abort: index [filename] is corrupted! where the filename would differ. First I tried downgrading my … Continue reading →

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Not used often enough in my opinion

Posted on 2012-02-20 by Oliver

Often people put on a condescending smirk when they hear that I still have to use CVS, let alone Subversion, in some projects. In numerous projects I have seen the performance of CVS and that of Subversion and it is … Continue reading →

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