community.general.hg module – Manages Mercurial (hg) repositories

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.7).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.hg.

Synopsis

  • Manages Mercurial (hg) repositories. Supports SSH, HTTP/S and local address.

Aliases: source_control.hg

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

clone

boolean

If false, do not clone the repository if it does not exist locally.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

dest

path

Absolute path of where the repository should be cloned to. This parameter is required, unless clone and update are set to no

executable

string

Path to hg executable to use. If not supplied, the normal mechanism for resolving binary paths will be used.

force

boolean

Discards uncommitted changes. Runs hg update -C.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

purge

boolean

Deletes untracked files. Runs hg purge.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

repo

aliases: name

string / required

The repository address.

revision

aliases: version

string

Equivalent -r option in hg command which could be the changeset, revision number, branch name or even tag.

update

boolean

If false, do not retrieve new revisions from the origin repository

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • This module does not support push capability. See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/31156.

  • If the task seems to be hanging, first verify remote host is in known_hosts. SSH will prompt user to authorize the first contact with a remote host. To avoid this prompt, one solution is to add the remote host public key in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts before calling the hg module, with the following command: ssh-keyscan remote_host.com >> /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts.

  • As per 01 Dec 2018, Bitbucket has dropped support for TLSv1 and TLSv1.1 connections. As such, if the underlying system still uses a Python version below 2.7.9, you will have issues checking out bitbucket repositories. See https://bitbucket.org/blog/deprecating-tlsv1-tlsv1-1-2018-12-01.

Examples

- name: Ensure the current working copy is inside the stable branch and deletes untracked files if any.
  community.general.hg:
    repo: https://bitbucket.org/user/repo1
    dest: /home/user/repo1
    revision: stable
    purge: true

- name: Get information about the repository whether or not it has already been cloned locally.
  community.general.hg:
    repo: git://bitbucket.org/user/repo
    dest: /srv/checkout
    clone: false
    update: false

Authors

  • Yeukhon Wong (@yeukhon)