Documentation for FishEye 3.0.x. Documentation for other versions is available too.

When adding or managing a Mercurial repository, you can do the following:

Requirements

  • Please refer to Supported platforms to see the version of Mercurial that is required by FishEye. (You should restart FishEye after upgrading Mercurial.)
  • Before you add your Mercurial repositories, you will need to set your executable location for hg (Mercurial).

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Related pages:

Mercurial repository setup

  1. Click the user menu in the FishEye header, and choose Administration. You will need to be logged in as an administrator to see this link.
  2. Click Repositories (under 'Repository Settings').
  3. Click Add Existing...
  4. Complete the wizard:

Step 1

Field

Description

Repository Type

Select Mercurial.

Name

Enter a name for this repository. The name may contain alphanumeric, underscore, '-' or '.' characters. This will be repository name in FishEye.

Description

Enter a short description of this repository.

Step 2

Field

Description

Repository Location

Enter the URL describing the Mercurial repository location. FishEye will clone this repository for indexing purposes.
(info) This URL must be compatible with the hg clone command.

Authentication Style

Choose the desired authentication style for your repository — No authentication, Generate key pair for SSH, Upload private key for SSH or Password for http(s).

Block Size

(optional) Enter how many commits you want FishEye to process in one batch. Larger values require more memory and increase the amount of work FishEye commits to the database in a single operation.

Command Timeout

(optional) Enter the time that a single Mercurial command is allowed to take to execute. Any command that exceeds this time is terminated and the operation will fail.

Step 3

Field

Description

Store Diff Info

Tick this checkbox, if you want FishEye to cache information about file diffs in its database. This is required for some FishEye features. See Configuring Repository Details for more information on this setting.

Enable Repository After Adding

Tick this checkbox, to enable the repository after adding (i.e. when you click Add).

Screenshots: Adding a Mercurial Repository

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Notes

  • Submitting Feedback — We're very interested in your feedback regarding this feature. The best place for submitting feedback is the FishEye forums.
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