Mercurial clone issue

Question

I'm using Mercurial and I've cloned a repo locally and upon hg push, I'm getting this:

abort: cannot lock static-http repository

What does this mean? Why can't it lock the static-http repository? Permission issue on the folder?

Answer 1

You can't because Mercurial doesn't implement push for static-http, you need either the smart protocol, ssh or local access.

See here for more details: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PublishingRepositories