Push to remote Mercurial repository

Question

I have a Mercurial repository on a remote VPS. The VPS has SSH access enabled. What are my options for pushing code changes from my development machine to the remote VPS?

Solution

If your VPS has Mercurial installed, simply:

hg push ssh://username@host/path/relative/to/home

or add to the repo's hgrc

[paths]
default-push = ssh://username@host/path/relative/to/home

and just

hg push

Comments

[deadbeef404]

FYI for anyone else that comes here, before attempting the above: When doing hg push, you need a double slash after hostname, for an absolute path. See this answer.

[RedGlyph]

No, it's not needed, it just means something else. A double slash makes the path absolute on the host, a single slash is relative to home (as correctly mentioned in Lazy Badger's answer).

[deadbeef404]

@RedGlyph, you are correct. I've updated my post to be slightly clearer about my meaning.

[alexzander]

but what if i want to push to /run/media/$DEVICE_LABEL, not in home dir of user ?

[Clonkex]

@alexzander Then you would use the double slash after the hostname as mentioned by deadbeef404.