(Arne Babenhauserheide)
2014-02-09: advertise that browse url and clone url are the same. advertise that browse url and clone url are the same.
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -1,14 +1,18 @@ hg site -Create and/or upload a static copy of the repository. +Create and/or upload a static copy of a Mercurial repository. You can get it via `hg clone http://draketo.de/proj/hgsite/` -The main goal is sharing code with Mercurial on servers which only offer +The main goal is sharing code over servers which only offer FTP access and statically served files, while providing the same information as hg serve and full solutions like bitbucket and gitorious (naturally without the interactivity). +Thanks to the static http support of Mercurial, the clone and browse +URLs are the same, so you can look at the site with your webbrowser or +clone the repository with Mercurial using the same URL. + On upload, only changed files are uploaded, based on the time they were last modified, so uploads can be reasonably fast.