hgwebdir
hgwebdir is a component of the Mercurial distributed version control system that provides a web-based interface for serving multiple repositories from a single directory. It acts as a web application (often invoked as a CGI script or via a WSGI wrapper) and presents each repository in a browsable format, including changesets, branches, file history, diffs, and file contents.
Deployment and configuration: Administrators place Mercurial repositories under a root directory and configure hgwebdir through a
Functionality: For each repository, hgwebdir provides a repository index, changeset lists, diffs, and a file viewer
Relation and scope: hgwebdir is part of Mercurial’s web interface suite, complementary to hgweb, which can serve