Download subdirectory from remote repository

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 01:49 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:42 AM, anatoly techtonik
> <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>         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. 
> 
> 
> And it is not necessary about archives of subdirectories. Just
> download of a raw file without compression is also a viable need.

You can do that today.

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