[issue893] pull on an http URL should fall back to static-http

[Eric S. Raymond]

New submission from Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com>:

Pull on a http URL should fall back to static-http if no hg server or other
appropriate app is available on the target host.  Yes, this will perform poorly
for very large repos, but it avoids having to do any configuration beyond "hg
init" on the target machine -- which is good.

My use case for this is that I have two small repos on a lan, one of which is on
my webserver (grelber) and the other under $HOME on my desktop box (snark). I
want to be able to pull from snark to grelber to publish versions, but setting
up a web-facing app on snark for the purpose seems like useless ceremony.

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messages: 4673
nosy: esr
priority: feature
status: unread
title: pull on an http URL should fall back to static-http

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