Download subdirectory from remote repository

[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 17:42 +0100, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:39:40PM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:24 PM, anatoly techtonik <
> techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Instead I just want to download subdirectory without any history,
> tagged
> > > >> or not. Is there a way to do this in HG?
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > No. The "hg archive" command supports this, but the web interface
> doesn't.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Is there any chance to get it? It is useful to fetch dependencies for
> > > scripting languages directly from the repository.
> >
> > We would probably take a patches doing this.
> >
> > What does other people feel about it ?
>
> IIRC, the last time patches to grab archives of subdirectories were
> proposed (~4 years ago?), it was rejected for failing to fit into our
> URL schema cleanly.
>
> Today, I'd probably insist that any such feature also come with a
> request-rate limiting mechanism. "It is useful to fetch dependencies"
> sounds too much like "We plan on abusing this with inefficient
> automation".
>

I misunderstood your "request" context. Nevermind last letter. Throttling
is definitely something that should be in every internet facing server. I
guess all major HG hostings implement it this way or the other.
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