Non-Working Mercurial after Mac OS X Lion (10.7) Install

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 08/22/2011 02:16 PM, Paul Boddie wrote:
> On 22/08/11 02:36, Kime H. Smith, Jr. wrote:
>> Augie:
>>
>> In my case, the line looked like this:
>>
>> lilliput = file://Volumes/Colossus_5/Library/WebServer
>
> Aren't URLs with the "file" scheme just like those using other schemes
> (such as "http") in that two forward-slashes are needed before the
> hostname (presumably optional for "file" URLs), *then* another slash is
> needed to start a path? Certainly, various Web browsers used to get
> quite upset if I tried to access a file like /home/me/myfile without
> writing it out as "file:///home/me/myfile", although I imagine other
> tools have been more tolerant.

Yes, this path should be written as 
file:///Volumes/Colossus_5/Library/WebServer .

That is however not fully consistent with other schemes (especially 
ssh), so in principle it should be 
file:////Volumes/Colossus_5/Library/WebServer because it is an absolute 
path.

/Mads