"hg archive" with remote URL

[Kastner Masilko, Friedrich]

> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of Mutlu Dogruel
>
> >> 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?

_Especially_ in an automated customer-side product deployment scenario I wouldn't want them to install git locally and SSH into my repository server. I'd rather have them downloading zip archives from my authorizing web-server via something like wget and HTTPS, and this is easy enough with hgweb's archive feature. Having customers installing a DVCS to get started with deployment is a no-no IMHO.

Regards,
Fritz



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