Deploy Mercurial Changes to Website Hosting Account

I want to move only the website files changed since the published revision to a hosting account using SSH or FTP. The hosting account is Linux based but does have have any version control installed, so I can't simply do an update there, and the solution must run on the local development machines.

I'm essentially trying to do what http://www.deployhq.com/ does, but for free. I want to publish开发者_如何学Python changes without having to re-upload everything or manually choose the files to move. I'm open to simply using a bash script that compares versions and copies each file (how? not that great with bash) since we'll be using Linux for development, but something with a web interface would be nice.

Thanks in advance for the help!

This seems more like a job for rsync than one for hg, given that that target doesn't have hg installed.

Something like so:

rsync -avz /path/to/local/files/ remote_host:/remote/path/

This would transfer all files, recursively (-r), from .../local/files/ and place them in /remote/path. The -az compresses and perserves file attributes.

rsync takes care of only transferring files that have changed. Be sure to watch for trailing slashed when specifying source paths, they matter (see the link above).