Mercurial Fetch Type

[Michael Franz]

On Feb 10, 2008 3:30 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> Michael Franz wrote:
> > Is it possible to use mercurial as a fetch type like cvs and subversion?
> >  The Forest Extension to Mercurial is not distributed as a tar file, the
> > only way that I can get it is by using mercurial.
>
> No, that's currently not supported. As mercurial is a decentralized
> version control system wouldn't it require to pull the whole history to
> get a checkout?
> Better ask the maintainers of the software to release source bundles.
> Maybe you could also look how other package management tools (FreeBSD
> ports, Gentoo portage, ...) solved this if they provide the software.
>
> Rainer
>
I'll have to look into this later.  For now, I will just install manually.
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