Just checkout only one folder from whole project

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Denny Schierz <linuxmail at 4lin.net> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i've started a project with lot of folders in it. I was able to push it
> over https and now i want to know, if it is possbile, to checkout only
> one folder, from the whole project.
>
> For better understanding:
>
> latex ->
> latex -> kernel
> latex -> nfs
> latex -> nis
> latex -> automounter
> latex -> ...
>
> i did a »hg init« in "latex" and now i want to checkout only the folder
> "nis" for example. Is that possible? Or do I have to start in every
> folder just one project?

This is being worked on. See
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/PartialClone for
details. For the moment, you would have to make each folder a repo of
its own. You can somewhat tame such a setup using the forest
extension: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ForestExtension.

-parren