Question

We have a test server where every developer has their own sandbox. In fact, our web project is so huge that we can’t allow developers to edit everything even in sandbox. For example, there are some password files from some other web services that developers don’t have permissions to see. Anyway, the thing is, we can’t allow developers to clone whole projects to their own PC’s for development. So we want to work remotely.

Which Windows client supports REMOTE mercurial repository exploring? I know that tortoiseHG is not capable of doing this. I tried to mount the project directory with sftpdrive software, but tortoiseHG just froze after I tried to ‘explore repository’ (it’s probably because of low bandwidth in the office).

Please, is there any mercurial GUI client for Windows that can work over sftp?

Answer 1

There is no such client. And I don’t thing it will exist ever. List of clients.

If your web project is in fact a web multi-project with shared ressources, you can split your repository in subrepositories (subrepo) and fine tune permission at subrepositories level.

EDIT about comments:

if the only environment where all things resources (devices, password files, …) are only met on the server, you can’t make local development on your computer. Either you refactor your code and include mocks for non-existent resources, so your developers’ computer can behaves like the server, or you continue to use sandboxes on servers and you make scripts on server that pull changes from a staging repository.