mercurial and ipv6

May 7, 2009

Today I needed to use mercurial over IPv6 in order to share a repository which is on a computer behind an (ipv4) firewall, but that can be reached over ipv6.
The naive

hg clone ssh://orzel@ipv6computername/hg/dir
hg clone ssh://orzel@[ipv6::address]/hg/dir

miserably failed. But i was hinted on IRC (thanks ‘Ry4an’ !) on how to do this, and thought I should share [...]

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