large repository access

[Kastner Masilko, Friedrich]

> From: Simon King [mailto:simon at simonking.org.uk]
> 
> Not really answering your immediate question, but did you know that you
> can retrieve a file at a particular revision using "hg cat"?
> 
>     http://selenic.com/hg/help/cat

I understood that the machine - with the applications needing the files - has no repository on it. If it already has them on, there would be various ways to get a single file or directory indeed. With some tricks, you could then even edit the file and commit it.

Suppose you have a bare repository (which is equivalent of having working copy revision "null" checked out), you could do:
hg debugsetparents REV
hg debugrebuildstate
hg revert path/to/my/large/file.jpg
<Photoshop etc.>
hg ci -m "file.jpg edited"

This would get you only the file in the working copy with the possibility to commit changes only to this file upon REV. The downside is that you have to live with a constantly "dirty" working copy, because the system will always show the other files to be missing.

regards,
Fritz



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