How do I set up a second Mercurial respository on SourceForge?

Question

I have been trying to create a second Mercurial repository on SourceForge following the instructions here.

Here's the grand total of what I did after logging in to the interactive shell:

[myuser@shell-23010 project]$ pwd
/home/scm_hg/p/pr/project
[myuser@shell-23010 project]$ mkdir newrepo
[myuser@shell-23010 project]$ hg init newrepo
[myuser@shell-23010 project]$ chmod -R g+w newrepo
[myuser@shell-23010 project]$ cd newrepo
[myuser@shell-23010 newrepo]$ ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 myuser   root 2048 Jun 25 20:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 dummy    root 2048 Jun 25 20:36 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 myuser   root 2048 Jun 25 20:37 .hg
[myuser@shell-23010 newrepo]$ cd .hg
[myuser@shell-23010 .hg]$ ls -al
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 3 myuser   root 2048 Jun 25 20:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 myuser   root 2048 Jun 25 20:37 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser   root   57 Jun 25 20:37 00changelog.i
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser   root   23 Jun 25 20:37 requires
drwxr-xr-x 2 myuser   root 2048 Jun 25 20:37 store
[myuser@shell-23010 .hg]$

So far, so good. However:

• When trying to clone the newrepo to my local machine, I get this lame response:

  PS C:\Users\myuser\temp> hg clone ssh://[email protected]/p/project/newrepo local-newrepo
  remote: abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!
  abort: no suitable response from remote hg!
  

• Furthermore, newrepo does not show up under the Mercurial menu or page of my SF project page.

What step am I missing?

Answer 1

It turns out the answer is: don't use the SourceForge docs! The link I gave above gives utterly the wrong directions!

The repository I created above is cloneable from the URL hg clone ssh://<user>@project.hg.sourceforge.net/hgroot/project/newrepo. HOWEVER, it isn't linked to the SourceForge project page in any way -- it seems to be a deprecated location and no one has removed the stale doc.

The correct way is to go into the "Admin" tab on your SF project page, then pick the "Tools" option on the left-hand menu, then pick the "Mercurial" option under "Click to Install".

Comme ça:

And just like that, it's done!