"hg archive" with remote URL

[Mutlu Dogruel]

Hi,

Is there any plan to support "hg archive" with remote URLs, as in:

git archive --remote=ssh://git@bitbucket.org/username/reponame.git --format=tar --output="file.tar" master

In deployment scenarios, this feature will be very useful in general, especially for platforms using the Opscode Chef cookbooks. The alternative is of course to clone, archive a specific version and then delete the .hg directory, but while there is an "hg archive" command, I think it must support remote repositories, too. Any thoughts or suggestions on this?

Thanks,
Best regards,
Mutlu