How to list all remote repositories in Mercurial?

Question

I'm just looking for a Mercurial command that can list the available repositories in the remote parent repository. When I used subversion, this was simple, as in:

svn ls httpx://server/repos/002/trunk

svn ls httpx://server/repos/002/trunk/blort

svn ls httpx://server/repos/002/trunk/blort/fubar

And then I could use ``svn co'' to fetch as much or as little of some directory tree as I wished.

However, I can't find the analog to this in Mercurial. All the tutorials seem to expect you to know precisely the path to the remote repository and don't discuss anything about even some top level browsing of the remote repository.

Thanks.

Punak

In your example there is also only one repo, httpx://server/repos, 002/ and deeper are paths inside of the repository. The difference between SVN and mercurial is that SVN allows to checkout subtrees of a tree, while mercurial always takes the full tree. – Lodger

Answer 1

There is only 1 path to the repository.

With a DVCS you typically clone the repository as a whole. Then you can look at it all you want locally. That is why you have received those answers in the past.

Olivette

As an alternative, there are Branches in Mercurial like in git. – Resign

Mercurial has at least 3 ways to handle branching. Best to read up on it. Have you read hginit.com – Olivette

But what if you have a repository on the order of several GB in size? Are you saying that I need to download that whole monster just to get a feel for the top level structure? I'm just looking for a non-recursive equivalent of ``svn ls'' that works in mercurial. – Punak

Yes. You always download the entire history of the whole repo with a DVCS -- you always have all history. If your repo is several GB in size you should stop storing binaries or split it into multiple repositories using subrepos. – Jaques

If you really really want to have these giant repos and then browse them, just set up a source browser web app on the machine where your hg repos are, and then you can look at them in your web browser. "hg serve" will even give you a basic version of this. – Mammary

Answer 2

I dont know about a command but it is doable with a script

for repo in `curl $url/hgweb.cgi | \
    grep -v "atom" | \
    grep hgweb.cgi | \
    awk -F'>' '{ print $3}' | \
    awk -F'<' '{print $1}'`; do \
    echo $repo \
    done

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