remote: hg: option --stdio not recognized

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Aug 2 02:25:27 CDT 2005


On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:54:06PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:30:14AM +0200, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
> > * Michael Smith <michael.smith at thalesatm.com> [20050802 00:49]:
> > > On  Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:03:04 +0200 Thomas Arendsen Hein
> > > <thomas at intevation.de> wrote:
> > > | The remote side may be too old, please check with:
> > > | $ ssh bortzmeyer at esther.generic-nic.net hg --version
> > > 
> > > [smithmr at linux35 smithmr]$ hg --version
> > > Mercurial version 5a55e3011772
> > > 
> > > How can I tell how old the software is from the hash?
> > 
> > You can enter it in the search field on http://www.selenic.com/hg/
> > and will see that the version you tested is two days old.
> > 
> > I've a change in my queue with which 'hg --version' will display
> > something like
> > "Mercurial version 5a55e3011772 (0.6b + 131 changesets)"
> > but this is not yet ready for prime time.
> > 
> > 
> > BUT: You didn't type what I said, so your result will be wrong!
> > You *really* have to use the ssh command I told you, otherwise you
> > will be checking the wrong hg installation.
> 
> This bug is almost surely to do with the : in his URL.

Yep. It creates an ssh command of the following form:

ssh user at host 'hg -R  serve --stdio'

Fixed in tip.

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