Prevent multiple heads in default branch for mercurial repositories

1

Is there proper way to preventing creating new heads in RhodeCode-managed hg repository with:

$ hg push -f

?

Currently I’m using custom hook scripts in .hg/hgrc but is there a better way?

2

The custom .hg/hgrc is currently the way to go. However please check out this ticket: https://issues.rhodecode.com/issues/4044

We’re going to roll this out together with Branch permissions.

3

Thanks for the reply, looking forward for integration of this ticket.
It would be could to manage multiple heads block on repository group/global level.

4

Yes, we’re going to leverage our permissions system on repo groups/repos to add additional rules on branches etc. So it should have all the flexibility that we already have with regular permissions.

5

we blocked it wholesale with a custom pretxnchangegroup hook:

python:forbid_2heads.py:forbid_2heads

# [hooks]
# pretxnchangegroup.forbid_2heads = python:forbid_2heads.forbid_2heads

from mercurial import ui
from mercurial.i18n import gettext as _

def forbid_2heads(ui, repo, hooktype, node, **kwargs):
    violators = [ branch for (branch, heads) in repo.branchmap().iteritems() if len([head for head in heads if not repo[head].extra().get('close')]) > 1 ]
    if violators:
        ui.warn(_('Trying to push more than one head to %s; did you forget to merge?\n') % violators)
        return True