According to the "Creating repositories" at http://dev.lshift.net/paul/mercurial-server/docbook.html all we need to do to create new repository - is to clone not existent one.
But in 1.1 I doesn't work. And if we look at code:
if cmd is None:
fail("direct logins on the hg account prohibited")
elif cmd.startswith('hg -R ') and cmd.endswith(' serve --stdio'):
repo = getrepo("read", cmd[6:-14])
if not os.path.isdir(repo + "/.hg"):
fail("no such repository %s" % repo)
dispatch.dispatch(['-R', repo, 'serve', '--stdio'])
elif cmd.startswith('hg init '):
repo = getrepo("init", cmd[8:])
if os.path.exists(repo):
fail("%s exists" % repo)
d = os.path.dirname(repo)
if d != "" and not os.path.isdir(d):
os.makedirs(d)
dispatch.dispatch(['init', repo])
else:
fail("illegal command %r" % cmd)
we can see, that to create we need to pass specifically init command.
This command works as expected:
"TortoisePlink.exe" -ssh -2 hg@mercurial "hg init tst"
but I hope it is some more elegant command to do so.
Well, is it a "bug" in documentation or am I doing something wrong?
UPDATE:
My question is only about creating repositories remotely using mercurial-server.
UPDATE 2:
It was my misunderstanding, since it was not clear for me that there should be already created local repository, that will be cloned remotely.
I find it very straightforward to create a new repo using Mercurial-server. Assuming that you have the rights and that the path "/dir1/dir2/" already exist on the server, simply (using command line):
mkdir new
cd new
hg init
hg clone . ssh://hg@server/dir1/dir2/new
Cheers,
Christophe.