Fwd: Mercurial as a software repository

[Roman Neuhauser]

# mg at lazybytes.net / 2010-08-21 12:03:30 +0200:
>   hg manifest [-r REV]
> 
>   output the current or given revision of the project manifest
> 
>       Print a list of version controlled files for the given revision.
>       If no revision is given, the first parent of the working directory
>       is used, or the null revision if no revision is checked out.
> 
>       With -v, print file permissions, symlink and executable bits. With
>       --debug, print file revision hashes.
> 
>       Returns 0 on success.
> 
> In other words, it does not take a URL on the command line, only an
> optional revision number.
> 
> Next step is to try the global --repository/-R option and then you'll
> see that this does not work on a remote repository:
> 
>   % hg -R http://bitbucket.org/mg/test manifest
>   abort: repository 'http://bitbucket.org/mg/test' is not local
> 
> There is no built-in command in Mercurial for listing the manifest on a
> remote repository. You need to clone it first.

what's the reason for this limitation?  remote manifest would have
been useful to me on a few occasions.

-- 
roman