hg way to get just a bundle of a remote repository without applying it

[Kevin Bullock]

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 18:35, Avi Kelman <patcherton.fixesthings at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all. I'm looking for how to do basically the first part of hg clone, where a
> bundle file is retrieved over the wire from a remote server, but then just
> saving that bundle file instead of applying it to build some new repo metadata.
> I swear I had a way to do it quickly, but now I can't remember what I was
> using. Thoughts?

You can use 'hg incoming --bundle FILE' for this. You'll need to run it inside of an empty local hg repo though.

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