"hg archive" with remote URL

[Mutlu Dogruel]

On 7 Aug 2013, at 20:04, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 


So what would your preferred method of getting project code be in an automated customer-side product deployment?