Mercurial: Why do I get a 404 error when pushing to a repository whose URL I can hit in a browser?

Question

I have a Mercurial repository that I can see just fine if I navigate to it in a browser, but when I try to do a push, with my default path set to the same URL that I visit in th

Answer 1

I received this error while trying to push a lot of changesets, with an especially large-sized one with many binary files (jpg update on a website). [jpg under source control, in the same repo as the source might not be the best approach, but that's besides the point.]

In such a case, if you don't have access to the IIS configuration, a work-around is to push fewer changesets at a time. In TortoiseHg, use the Outgoing feature, right-click the top changeset of the subset you want to push, and select Push To Here. Repeat.