hg update over ssh not working (hg clone works well...)

Question

I have some code on bitbucket.org under mercurial version control. Now I want to download the code on my ubuntu machine over ssh. When I use hg clone everything works well. However hg update never updates any files. I'm not even asked for my ssh password. I checked these setting:

ssh -v hg@bitbucket.org

-> looks ok.

hg showconfig

-> path.default = ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/user/myrepo...

Do you have any idea what else to check?

Thanks.

Answer 1

hg update doesn't contact the remote repo, it pulls changes into the working directory from your local repository. That's why you are not being asked for your bitbucket password. Use hg pull to get the changes from the remote repo into your local repo, then hg update, or just use hg pull -u to do both at once.