Command server

[Idan Kamara]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Sergey Antonov <sergant_ at mail.ru> wrote:

> On 18.12.2011 1:45, Idan Kamara wrote:
>
>>    I've made some tests and found that commands like
>>    incoming/outgoing/push/pull does not asks for credentials via
>>    command server protocol and simply aborts with 'abort: http
>>    authorization required'.
>>
>>
>> Please provide an example (preferably with python-hglib). I don't recall
>> trying it but I don't see why it shouldn't work.
>>
>>
> Here are steps to reproduce:
> 1. hg clone https://bitbucket.org/**zzsergant/testcmdsrv<https://bitbucket.org/zzsergant/testcmdsrv>
> 2. cd testcmdsrv
> 3. echo 2 >> a.txt
> 4. hg ci -m "edit"
> 5. Create cmdsrv.py and copy example client from part 5 at
>  http://mercurial.selenic.com/**wiki/CommandServer<http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CommandServer>
> 6. cmdsrv.py push
>

I updated the example client, try `cmdsrv.py --config ui.interaction=1 push`


>
> Output:
> D:\Work\Tests1\SccTests3\**testcmdsrv>cmdsrv.py push
> hello block: ('o', 'capabilities: getencoding runcommand\nencoding:
> cp1251')
> output: 'pushing to https://bitbucket.org/**zzsergant/testcmdsrv\n<https://bitbucket.org/zzsergant/testcmdsrv%5Cn>
> '
> output: 'searching for changes\n'
> error: 'abort: http authorization required\n'
> exit code: -1
>
> But when I run a hg.exe it asks for username/password:
> D:\Work\Tests1\SccTests3\**testcmdsrv>hg push
> pushing to https://bitbucket.org/**zzsergant/testcmdsrv<https://bitbucket.org/zzsergant/testcmdsrv>
> searching for changes
> http authorization required
> realm: Bitbucket.org HTTP
> user:
>
>
>
>>    The second problem is that server needs a repository. I know that
>>    this is known limitation. But it is not possible to clone a remote
>>    repository in command server mode.
>>
>>
>> I tried fixing this at some point, but it had too many edge cases to be
>> worth the hassle.
>>
>> What we do in python-hglib is run clone (or other non-repo commands) on
>> the command line and then optionally connect to it using the cmdserver.
>>
>>
> How do you connect to it ?
> Using some command line switch to the command line client for clone
> command ?


No, we just do it in two separate commands, the first clones like usual on
the cmdline: `hg clone foo <path>`,
then start up the cmdserver on the new repo, `hg serve --cmdserver pipe -R
<path>`.


>
>
>
> --
> Sergey Antonov
> sergant_ at mail.ru
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