Move local Mercurial repository to Bitbucket

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Has anyone taken a local repo and imported it into Bitbucket? When I go to do this, the Import page asks for a URL, but I'm working on a local computer that does not have port 8000 open to the outside world.

Can I just use some special form of a file path?

Note: I did open up the mercurial server port just to get it to work, but in general, would prefer not to do this, if possible. — Daniel Williams, Dec 29 '11 at 02:49
aha, was not aware of it. new to mercurial and bitbucket. thank you. — Daniel Williams, Dec 29 '11 at 03:22
Note that [BitBucket no longer support Mercurial](https://stackoverflow.com/a/57581461/6309) (August 2019). — VonC, Aug 20 '19 at 21:05

César · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-29T04:46:37.023

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First you need to create a repository in Bitbucket, go to Repositories -> create repository. Then you can choose between HTTPS or SSH.

You can customize your hgrc file like this:

[ui]
username = Your Name <youremail@example.com>

[paths]
myproject = https://.. # The one provided by Bitbucket

Now you can just push your changes to the repository:

$ hg commit -m "my changes"
$ hg push myproject

Or pull changes:

$ hg pull -u myproject

The -u option will also update your local repository after pulling the changes. You can use this option instead of pulling and then updating your local repository. The -u option is the same as doing:

$ hg pull myproject
$ hg update

You may also want to take a look to the hgignore file.

edited Dec 29 '11 at 04:46

answered Dec 29 '11 at 04:37

César

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Can you explain the importance of setting the myproject variable? The pushing seems to work even without it. – einpoklum Mar 12 '16 at 21:20
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I created an empty HG repository on BB and then tried to push as you described but I'm getting an "abort: repository is unrelated" error. What am I missing? – Dan Berlyoung Aug 13 '18 at 16:18

Move local Mercurial repository to Bitbucket

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