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brian.lachniet

30 Oct, 2014 05:18 PM

For better or for worse, our we have nested repositories in our Mercurial project. For example, our repository structure looks like this:

CoolApp\
    .hg\
    UsefulLib\
        .hg\
        USEFUL.md
    .hgsub
    README.md

.hgsub looks something like this:

UsefulLib = UsefulLib

I successfully added CoolApp as a repository in HgLab. However, when I tried to clone the repository, I received an error stating that http://HgLab:8080/hg/AwesomeProject/CoolApp/UsefulLib is not a valid hg repository. I assume that HgLab is not looking below the top level directory for repositories. Is there any way for me to make this work, or is there no intention for HgLab to support this?

Thanks,
Brian

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Anton Gogolev on 13 Nov, 2014 08:18 AM

   

   Brian,

   Apologies for the delay. HgLab does not currently support nested repositories with "trivial paths", as per Mercurial docs.

   One workaround will be to slightly tweak the '.hgsub' file like this:

   UsefulLib = UsefulLib
   
   [subpaths]
   http://HgLab:8080/hg/AwesomeProject/CoolApp/UsefulLib = <ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_USEFULLIB_REPOSITORY>
   

   where ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_USEFULLIB_REPOSITORY is the path where Mercurial can clone the UsefulLib from (e.g. http://HgLab:8080/hg/AwesomeProject/UsefulLib). See this for more information.

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