This is a rather old thread, so I hope the people discussing here are still in the group. My question: reading this says to me, that reviewboard simply can not be used with Mercurial over ssh. And still not in 2016. Am I right here?
Thanks and Cheers, Wolfgang Am Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2011 08:10:37 UTC+2 schrieb morisgi: > > AFAIK, the "hg serve --stdio" command does not start hgweb. It just > instruct > HG to start the wire protocol to listen on SSH stdin instead of a HTTP > socket. But the HG wire protocol has no command to retrieve a file > revision > content. > > So the solution would be to either: > - Implement a new wire command to retrieve a file revision on the HG side. > There has always been some push back for such requests, so I don't see > that > happen. > - Implement a specialized HGSSHClient class in the hg.py of the > ReviewBoard > scmtools to would run remotely run "hg cat" command and dump the result > over > the SSH link, instead of trying to run the HG wire protocol over SSH. > The Pros is that this would work with any mercurial version. > The drawback of this solution is that you can't protect SSH accesses with > the > hg-ssh script. You would have to use a different wrapper. > > Regards. > Gilles. > > On Thursday 19 May 2011 01:11:37 am Chris Toomey wrote: > > Thanks Giles. When I was trying to debug it I saw that it was running > > "hg serve" remotely on the target host over ssh, so it looked like it > > should thus be able to work w/ the same hgweb interface, but that's > > about where I got stuck trying to figure out why it wasn't working. > > Was that some work that was started and not completed or was I > > misinterpreting how it was trying to work? > > > > Chris > > > > On May 17, 10:27 pm, Gilles Moris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 07:51:07 am Chris Toomey wrote: > > > > Hi Christian, > > > > > > > > It just has the info about the file/revision that it says it can't > > > > find: > > > > > > > > {"stat": "fail", "err": {"msg": "The file was not found in the > > > > repository", "code": 207}, "file": "webapp/zend/application/ > > > > Bootstrap.php", "revision": "89c64afda439"} > > > > > > > > If I cd to the repository dir. on the server (the RB server and > > > > mercurial repository are on the same host) and execute "hg cat -r > > > > 89c64afda439 webapp/zend/application/Bootstrap.php" I get the > contents > > > > of that rev. of the file, which is definitely in the repository. And > > > > again, it's able to access that rev. of the file when I use an > http:// > > > > repository path in RB. > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > The 'hg cat' command cannot operate remotely through ssh:// > repositories. > > > It works only locally. The http:// repos in RB work around that using > the > > > raw file download from the hgweb interface. > > > So you cannot configure a HG repo with ssh:// from ReviewBoard. > > > You have to use local path (or NFS/SMB) or http://. It might be > possible > > > to use https:// as well. > > > > > > Regards. > > > Gilles. > > > -- Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
