Re: Version Control Repository on a “Cloud”

[Simon King]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Pietro Moras <studio-pm at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thinking over again about the subject of a web Mercurial repository, I
> realized that the very, basic question is another.
>
> ?) How can it be that a Project under Version Control, when on the web,
> requires a special, dedicated repository, instead of a bit of normal room
> into a usual Cloud directory?
> It sounds too peculiar to be true, and, if true, it's for sure a tremendous
> obstacle hindering any really wide and generalized acceptance of such tool.
>
> Your thoughts? Thanks!
>
> - P.M.

Hi Pietro,

What's your definition of a "usual Cloud directory"? What is the API
for creating files in it? Does it run over HTTP, FTP, SMB, NFS etc.?
Does it support authentication, permissions, multiple users, SSL? Does
it support symlinks and hard links?

Mercurial does support read-only operations against a "dumb" web
server (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/StaticHTTP), but it is very
slow because mercurial has to request each file individually. And it
can't push to it, because there is no standard way of writing to files
on a remote web server.

Simon