TortoiseHg: Browsing Remote Repositories

[Steve Borho]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Stephen Rasku <mercurial at srasku.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 15:46, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
>> On 27.11.2009 00:02, 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.

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Steve Borho