On my remote server that hosts all mercurial repos (+100) I want to define a global hook. That is, after a commit to any of the repos a certain action is suppose to take place (actually a post request should be triggered).
I know that I can define a hook in every single repo but considering the amount of repos this not an option. Is there a way to define the hook globally?
On a 'remote' server everything works the same as on your local machine.
Anything which is supposed to work for every repository can be controlled by your global config file (~/.hgrc or %USERPROFILE%\mercurial.ini). Thus if all repositories are owned by the same user on the server, then add those hook(s) to its ~/.hgrc. There are other places for system-wide configuration files. Excerpt from hg help config (unix paths):
- "<repo>/.hg/hgrc" (per-repository)
- "$HOME/.hgrc" (per-user)
- "<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc" (per-installation)
- "<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc" (per-installation)
- "/etc/mercurial/hgrc" (per-system)
- "/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc" (per-system)
- "<internal>/default.d/*.rc" (defaults)