large repository access

[Simon King]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Kastner Masilko, Friedrich
<kastner-masilko at at.festo.com> wrote:
>> From: Franklin Siler [mailto:fsiler at gmail.com]
>>
>> I'm afraid that "hg serve" crashes without leaving anything in the
>> error log or on the console when trying to access files with this
>> method, even with "-vvv" added.  Also, WEBDAV doesn't work against it;
>> the HTTP OPTIONS command isn't supported.  I suppose the latter might
>> be easy to patch, but a bit more introspection about the crash is
>> necessary before I can do much about it.
>
> Indeed the crash needs more introspection. I can't reproduce a crash here with TortoiseHg 2.9.1 (Mercurial-2.7.1, Python-2.7.3) installation.
> "hg serve --port 8000 --debug" shows this log on a repository with picture content and a Firefox browser access of first the file browsing and then directly the raw content via "http://localhost:8000/raw-file/fdf0fe58b8a1/Product/Project/Resources/Product_failed_16x16.png":
> listening at http://host.company.net:8000/ (bound to *:8000)
> 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Oct/2013 11:53:16] "GET /file/fdf0fe58b8a1/Product/Project/Resources/Product_failed_16x16.png HTTP/1.1" 304 -
> 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Oct/2013 11:53:16] "GET /static/style-coal.css HTTP/1.1" 304 -
> 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Oct/2013 11:53:16] "GET /static/mercurial.js HTTP/1.1" 304 -
> 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Oct/2013 11:53:16] "GET /highlightcss HTTP/1.1" 304 -
> 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Oct/2013 11:53:16] "GET /static/hgicon.png HTTP/1.1" 304 -
> 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Oct/2013 11:53:16] "GET /static/hglogo.png HTTP/1.1" 304 -
> 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Oct/2013 11:53:16] "GET /static/background.png HTTP/1.1" 304 -
> 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Oct/2013 11:53:21] "GET /raw-file/fdf0fe58b8a1/Product/Project/Resources/Product_failed_16x16.png HTTP/1.1" 200 -
>
> Could perhaps the file-size be the reason for the crash?
>
> I'm not sure how easy it would be to get WEBDAV support patched-in, though.
>
> regards,
> Fritz
>

Not really answering your immediate question, but did you know that
you can retrieve a file at a particular revision using "hg cat"?

    http://selenic.com/hg/help/cat

There's also https://code.google.com/p/hgfs/ which would seem to be
similar to what you were asking about in your initial mail, although
it doesn't look very active.

Hope that helps,

Simon