hg serve simply hangs in terminal

Question

I've started using Mercurial for my personal projects and I'm currently going through Joel's tutorial here: http://hginit.com/02.html The problem is when I type in `hg serve` in the terminal, it simply hangs. Other commands like `hg init` works perfectly. Anyone know what's going on? I installed mercurial by doing this: `sudo apt-get install mercurial meld`

Accepted Answer

You want to use the -d option to run it in the background:

```
hg serve -d
```

Otherwise it will just run as a foreground process, logging to stdout and stderr.

Run `hg help serve` to see more options.

hg serve simply hangs in terminal

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