Mercurial, do I need a server for team-work or can I just create a repository on a network share?

If I want to set up a smallish Mercurial repository for some internal work among a few developers, can I just navigate to a network share and create a repository there, and then just clone that down locally? Or do I need to set up a server (I know, it's easy to do).

This is Windows by the way.

Specifically, I'm wondering if there will be concurrency issues, like abandoned transactions,开发者_运维技巧 etc. if multiple users work push/pull simultaneously.

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So long as folks are interacting with the repo using only 'clone', 'push', and 'pull', you're in fine shape. What you can't do is have multiple people committing directly from a shared working directory. However, push, pull, and clone are safe to use to a shared folder from a user's personal repository. All changes end up effectively atomic, and no aborted work should cause anyone any problems.

When creating that clone consider using clone -U so it's created without a working directory so folks aren't tempted to edit and commit there.

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There's no reason I can think of why you wouldn't be able to do so. I do something similar, only I don't use CIFS, but ssh to access the files. No server setup to speak of in either case.

The only thing that came to mind as a possible problem was concurrent access, but you can see for yourself that Mercurial takes care not to allow users to step on each other's toes.