How does unbundle work

Question

Before explaining my problem let me tell you the Mercurial setup,

We have the following repos,

RELEASE DEVELOPMENT BUGFIX

All the above repo are running on a central server using IIS and hgwebdir.cgi

Now coming to the problem,

1. I clone a local repo from DEVELOPMENT repo.
2. I make changes to the clone and commit (Not push).
3. I make a bundle from the clone and pass the bundle to QA who has cloned the RELEASE repo.
4. Now I try to apply the bundle to the RELEASE repo clone using hg unbundle
5. I get an error, abort: error: ftp error: no host given

What am I doing wrong? Can you give solution to the above problem keeping a Windows setup in mind?

Answer 1

It really sounds like you have a syntax error in your unbundle command. The normal usage is just:

hg unbundle c:\path\to\the.bundle

there's no ftp involved unless you're trying to use a ftp:// URL which isn't supported. Is it possible you have a directory named ftp and the parser is mistakign it for a component in a ftp URL?

Also, most folks wouldn't use bundles in the scenario you're describing. They'd just do:

hg push URL-or-file-path-to-QA

and push direct to QA's own repo (not to RELEASE)

People generally use bundles only when a network connection isn't possible or practical.

Answer 2

I experienced the same problem, I don't think hg likes uncs.

I mapped \server\DevSourceCode\Mercurial to R: and it worked fine, see below:

R:\Repositories\myproj>hg unbundle  \\server\DevSourceCode\Mercurial\ChangeBundles\myproj_changes.hg
abort: error: ftp error: no host given

R:\Repositories\myproj>hg unbundle  R:\ChangeBundles\myproj_changes.hg
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 0 changesets with 0 changes to 139 files
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)