RFC: A mercurial pack extension

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

> > > Maybe an option to upload to some standard protocols could be added to
> > > bundle, too? Like
> > >
> > >   hg bundle ftp://my.host.com//hgbundle/myproject-peo.hg ../base
> > >
> > > where ../base is my local clone of myproject-base.hg. Of course, one
> > > could also use a tag for this. Might be especially handy if the
> > > [paths] from .hgrc would work here.
> >
> > Sounds interesting. I'd have to poke at the capabilities that urllib2 gives
> > us for uploads. FTP shouldn't be too difficult even if we need to pull in
> > an extra module from python's std lib.
>
> I imagine the ability to automatically upload bundles (e.g. over FTP, SSH or
> even HTTP to a server) could be useful for those who don't have easy access
> to CGI and end up doing everything via bundles?  It'd be quite neat
> useability-wise to be able to do something like this...

This is exactly the situation we found ourselves in (no longer, luckily).

> I actually wonder if it'd be technically possible to extend an existing
> bundle, which could make "push" to a bundle a sensible operation...  I can
> dream ;-)