"hg archive" with remote URL

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 13:20 +0100, Mutlu Dogruel wrote:
> 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

Definitely not. We intentionally restrict the set of things you can do
with remote repositories to push and pull so that people are forced to
do everything else locally.

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