Security: Deny access to .hg/* via mod_rewrite

Question

My website is a mercurial repository with multiple subrepositories. I need to make sure I\'m denying access to all files in every .hg directory on the server.

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Answer 1

If you don't have to use mod_rewrite, then you can just do this:

RedirectMatch 404 /\\.hg(/|$)

(Full disclosure: answer adapted for Mercurial from this question about doing the same thing for Subversion).