Mercurial hook not executing properly

Question

This should be a very simple thing to have run, but for some reason it won\'t work with my Mercurial repository. All I want is for the remote repo to automatically run

Answer 1

took a while but I got it working.

I started with

[hooks]
tag=set >&2
commit=set >&2

the >&2 pipes it to standard error so remote consoles will show it.

when remote this should output in console if it is running

hg push https://host/hg   -v

It wasn't.

I was using hgweb.cgi so I switched to hgweb.wsgi with no difference.

what I discovered is that some hooks don't get called on remote.

when I switched it to

[hooks]
incoming= set >&2

the hooks tag and commit don't seem to get called but incoming and changeset do get called. I haven't confirmed the others.

now that I got it working I switched back to hgweb.cgi and everything works the same.