Lazy remote clones?

[Andreas Axelsson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-
> bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of Jesse Glick
> If you're interested in a somewhat messy solution that works with
> current versions of Hg:
> 
> http://wiki.netbeans.org/HgExternalBinaries
> 
> The insight here is to use Hg's encode and decode hooks, so that the
> repository actually keeps just hashes for big binary files, which get
> replaced with the real thing in the working copy. There is a local file
> cache which you can blow away at will. The server side requires static
> HTTP serving plus a simple CGI script.

Thanks, this looks pretty much like what I was looking for.

/axl