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Asked: 2026-06-13T23:11:14+00:00

I’m having an issue with setting up jenkins for build automation, we use the

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I’m having an issue with setting up jenkins for build automation, we use the source control host codebasehq, with mercurial, however it is failing to pull from the repo.

The plugin seems to connect fine with the supplied credentials (at the moment we’re simply using the in http url credentials) but then gives the following error:

Building in workspace /home/ubuntu/jenkins/jobs/testJob/workspace 
$ hg clone --rev tip --noupdate https://foo:bar@initech.codebasehq.com/foo/bar.hg /home/ubuntu/jenkins/jobs/testJob/workspace
abort: partial pull cannot be done because other repository doesn't support changegroupsubset.

I’ve tried running the command in the error message, but it simply returns the same abort message.

I have limited experience with mercurial, and google doesn’t seem to return much on the error message, which makes me think it might either be an issue with the jenkins plugin, or codebasehq’s mercurial setup.

Any information on the error or if anyone has experience with setting up this kind of thing on codebasehq successfully and could share any advice would be fantastic.

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  1. Editorial Team

    After a response from the codebasehq support team, it seems that ‘changegroupsubset’ refers to a feature that is unsupported by the https version of their mercurial repository. It is however, supported by the ssh version of their repository, so I was able to fix this by simply replacing 

    hg clone --rev tip --noupdate https://foo:bar@initech.codebasehq.com/foo/bar.hg /home/ubuntu/jenkins/jobs/testJob/workspace

    with

    hg clone --rev tip --noupdate ssh://foo:bar@initech.codebasehq.com/foo/bar.hg /home/ubuntu/jenkins/jobs/testJob/workspace

    And this worked successfully.

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