I don't know what's wrong but I can't add a file with the mercurial backend (the file is created but not added). Here is a patch that's seems to work, although I'm not quite sure what's wrong with current code : hbernard@tactic:/usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Rcs$ diff mercurial.pm /home/hbernard/mercurial.pm -Nau --- mercurial.pm 2007-03-24 16:14:35.000000000 +0100 +++ /home/hbernard/mercurial.pm 2007-04-19 19:05:47.000000000 +0200 @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ sub rcs_add ($) { # {{{ my ($file) = @_; - my @cmdline = ("hg", "-q", "-R", "$config{srcdir}", "add", "$file"); + my @cmdline = ("hg", "-q", "-R", "$config{srcdir}", "add", "$config{srcdir}/$file"); if (system(@cmdline) != 0) { warn "'@cmdline' failed: $!"; } My srcdir path has some symbolics links and hidden directorys... maybe that's it ?