How do I move a private Mercurial repository to a central server?

Question

I’m just getting started with Mercurial, and I’ve read Joel Spolsky’s Hg Init tutorial, which I liked.

I’m wondering: let’s say I have a private repository and I work on

Answer 1

BitBucket's help says it's as easy as making an empty repo on BitBucket, then pushing to it:

... create a new empty repository via the "Create repository" page. We will assume that this repository is named blonk and is to be found on http://bitbucket.org/jespern/blonk.

Now, just push to it:

  $ cd ~/Work/blonk # our existing hg repository
  $ hg push http://bitbucket.org/jespern/blonk
  ...

Done!

You can edit .hg/hgrc in your repository to include the default path to Bitbucket:

  $ cat .hg/hgrc
  [paths]
  default = http://bitbucket.org/jespern/blonk

Now you can simply enter hg push and hg pull without having to specify the full URL.