"hg log" for remote repositories?

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On 9/14/07, Marcin Kasperski <Marcin.Kasperski at softax.com.pl> wrote:
>
> > This is for use in a GUI app that will display the files and
> > revision history.  I'd like it to be able to work [at least
> > partially] on remote repositories as well as local ones.
> >
> > (...)
> >
> >     We could do log over the wire,
> >     but it would be a) very complicated or b) missing lots of features or c)
> >     *SLOW*.
>
> Just a looose idea: maybe it would make sense if hg serve offered
> the content not only in the form of pure HTML, but also as some
> kind of API (XML/RPC?, SOAP?, some other API over HTTP?). This way
> people could contemplate binding some GUI apps to such API.
>
> Note that this is *not* about implementing remote commands. The
> information served would be exactly the same as what is currently
> available would somebody spawn firefox (or, ekhem, tried to parse
> HTML...).

Sounds like running "hg log" over ssh, so maybe one could make "hg
serve" accept special requests that run a select list of "hg ..."
commands and return the output, with templates and all.
-peo