hgserve encoding

[Yuya Nishihara]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:09:55 -0400, Jérôme Godbout wrote:
> I have some trouble with the hgserve with apache2 with .cgi and my repos
> hosting, it mostly work except when it tell me I have corrupted file, but
> using the repos into local map drive work just fine and verify/recover
> doesn't show any problems with it either.
> 
> I known the setup is totally weird, but we try to get ride of many Windows
> machines (it's a work in progress).
> 
> I have the repos that was originally made under Windows copied to a Linux
> based machine. The Linux repos file server is sharing it with Samba so
> developer can pull/push to it. This work flawlessly.
> 
> I would like to finish the apache2/hg cgi to have all user stop using the
> map drive and use the web server instead. But right now I have a lot of
> weird problems.
> 
> I have a second Linux server that mount the samba share and have the
> apache2 with the hgconfig for cgi-bin. I can browse the page, pull from it
> but when I try to see some history (not all of them), raw or diff for some
> file it tell me my file are corrupted.

Does "hg verify" pass on the samba share? The first thing I would try is
to stop using shared filesystem behind hgweb to see if it is a filesystem
issue or not.

> I think I might have some encoding problems. Since the repos was made under
> Windows (porbably cp-1251 or wwindows-1251) and I'm using Linux for the
> hgweb.

Character encoding could be a problem if the repository has files of non-ASCII
name, and if the underlying filesystem is encoding-aware (e.g. Samba.) If the
repository is stored in local Unix filesystems (and if clients are Windows),
filenames are just bytes so cp1251 filenames should just work.