yet another dvcs shootout (this time python-devel)
Martin Geisler
mg at daimi.au.dk
Wed Nov 5 15:11:39 UTC 2008
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> writes:
>> $ time bzr branch http://code.python.org/python/3.0
>
> This seems to be using plain HTTP protocol, that is : no bzr-related
> software on the server, just apache and files. AFAIK, Mercurial is not
> able to do this and requires hg to be running on the server even for
> http.
No, you can pull and clone from plain HTTP servers with Mercurial:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/StaticHTTP
Mercurial has recently learned how to autodetect this case:
http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew/rev/25c0dee16ee0
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