Extracting single file from remote hg repository

[Gregor Mückl]

On 8/19/2019 4:36 PM, Scott Palmer wrote:
> You mention: "I have to assume that the remote repository is running without a
> hosting server or with an unknown one. So abusing a web frontend for
> this task is out of the question.”
>
> But it must be a hosting server that follows the Mercurial server protocols.  Is it not standard to support ‘raw’ file access via the URL?
> Like this:
>
> <scheme>://<server>/project_path/path/to/file/raw/<HASH>
>
> To get the raw file, identified by "path/to/file” at the given changeset hash, for the repo at “<scheme>://<server>/project_path”  ?  Are there Mercurial servers that don’t support this?
>
>
> Scott

How does this work over the ssh protocol? This is a protocol that I need
to have a solution for.

Gregor