On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Wagner Bruna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > (redirecting to the tortoisehg users list) > > 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.
This is more feasible, but not currently on the roadmap. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
