Error while retrieving repository

Michael Smith michael.smith at thalesatm.com
Thu Jun 26 02:17:19 CDT 2008


ashmeet pala wrote:

> But when someone tries to execute the following command (remote client 
> on the local network)
> 
> *hg clone 172.16.8.37/cake <http://172.16.8.37/cake> *
> 
> (172.16.8.37 <http://172.16.8.37> is my internal IP) it says
> 
> *abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!*
> 
> what can i do . is it that i have to permit others or what .

Better if you explicitly specify the protocol you want to use:

hg clone ssh://172.16.8.37/cake

What protocol do you expect mercurial to use in this case? If you have 
shared disks you could probably do it through the SMB file system:

hg clone Z:/cake

...or similar
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