Question

I have a server with ssh, that I want to use as a central repo. However I can not install mercurial on it. Therefore how can clients push to the server over ssh without having mercurial installed on the server.

Thank You

Answer 1

You do not have to install mercurial on that server. if you can mount it then you can create a regular repository by providing the path to “hg init” for creating a repository on this remote server.

Another way is sshfs. This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol.

• http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

So using this you could do

sshfs hostname: mountpoint # mounts the file system
hg init mountpoint # do your mercurial operation
fusermount -u mountpoint # unmounts the file system

I have not done this but you could give a try.