Protecting subfolders with hgweb.cgi

[Ted Pavlic]

In a lab I teach, I distribute lots of course materials as PDFs that I 
created with LaTeX. The source tree for the entire class is managed by 
Mercurial, and I would like to publish the source code for those 
documents in case my students want some examples for their own code.

Unfortunately, I also keep the source code for my quizzes and finals in 
the repository (which includes solutions). I don't mind the students 
seeing the source for the documentation that I distribute, but I'd still 
like to hide the quizzes/finals from them.

I think the only way I can deal with this problem is to have two 
repositories -- a documentation repository and a quiz repository. I'd 
put the documentation one on-line and keep the quiz one private. Am I 
correct? Or is there a simpler solution?

Right now I only have one repository. Is there any way that I can "break 
off" the quiz-specific stuff into its own repository, maintaining its 
history? I know how to use quilt (mq). Should I just try isolating the 
quiz-specific patches and creating a new repository that way?

Thanks --
Ted

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Ted Pavlic <ted at tedpavlic.com>