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Say I have a repository on another machine whose entire history is to big to clone locally. If I have no intention of submitting any changes back to that repository, there’s no reason that I shouldn’t be able to just take a snapshot of the tip. Is there a way to do this, or am I going to find myself working around this with an rsync hack or something similar?
If it helps, in my case, the remote repository is provided by mercurial-server through an ssh tunnel.
You can use
hg archiveto create an unversioned archive for any revision. It does not work with ssh URL, so you’d have to run it on the remote host then scp the archive back.