Mercurial > hg
changeset 11104:9fa028431957
Merge with stable
| author | Martin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net> |
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| date | Fri, 07 May 2010 17:03:48 +0200 |
| parents | 502474839293 (current diff) d29bd98ebff6 (diff) |
| children | 6f4543842795 |
| files | mercurial/commands.py |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/commands.py Wed May 05 20:21:57 2010 -0500 +++ b/mercurial/commands.py Fri May 07 17:03:48 2010 +0200 @@ -2900,7 +2900,16 @@ def serve(ui, repo, **opts): """start stand-alone webserver - Start a local HTTP repository browser and pull server. + Start a local HTTP repository browser and pull server. You can use + this for ad-hoc sharing and browing of repositories. It is + recommended to use a real web server to serve a repository for + longer periods of time. + + Please note that the server does not implement access control. + This means that, by default, anybody can read from the server and + nobody can write to it by default. Set the ``web.allow_push`` + option to ``*`` to allow everybody to push to the server. You + should use a real web server if you need to authenticate users. By default, the server logs accesses to stdout and errors to stderr. Use the -A/--accesslog and -E/--errorlog options to log to