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Steve Borho wrote: > Stephen Rasku wrote: >> Adrian Buehlmann wrote: >>> Stephen Rasku wrote: >>>> A quick question: Is it possible to use TortoiseHg to browse remote >>>> repositories without cloning them locally? If not, is that feature >>>> planned for the future? >>>> >>> No, this is not possible. >>> >>> No, it is not planned. >>> >>> And it is very unlikely to be planned ever because Mercurial is a DVCS >>> (= use your local history). >> But I don't necessarily want to have a local copy of a large >> repository on my local system. I can currently view history remotely >> running "hg serve" or hgwebdir on the remote machine. I would think >> that Tortoise could use a similar mechanism to provide remote viewing >> but providing a richer interface than the web interface does. > > The work required dwarfs any benefit you would get from such a > feature. I don't see TortoiseHg even trying to do anything like this > before Mercurial supported some sort of remote API, and the chances of > that happening are pretty slim. > > It's certainly not on either project's road map. What about a simple integration with hgwebdir? TortoiseHg could get the url list directly from the index page (via a custom style, or even "raw"), and present it as a treeview. The urls would then be available for clone or pull, much like what the "browse" button does for local repositories. Thanks, Wagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
