git clone doesn't support a revision specifier, but hg clone definitely does (hg clone -r; it's in the manpage).
I haven't worked on this project in eons, but I know at least that much. :D On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 2:24 PM Amenel Voglozin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > As far as I know, you cannot "select" the part of a DVCS repository that > you want to clone. It's either the entire repository or nothing; if I'm not > mistaken, this is also the case with Git, but I barely know Git and > actually, I barely know Mercurial because each of these is capable of so > much more than my basic usage of them. You can, to a limited extent, select > in the **Push** window which changesets you are sharing. > > The Synchronize option you mentioned is meant (I'll have to double check > this) for when you already have a copy of a repo and both have diverged: > you may then elect to only synchronize one branch, meaning that you are > only interested in one branch. > > There is no official documentation for **all** the options and settings, > and such a thing is a gaping hole in the project to which I have alluded in > the past. Therefore I had started to collect the meanings while doing the > maintenance but it is definitely not ripe for publishing nor complete. Far > from it, actually. > > About "How can we get it to only pull one branch.", please open a entry on > the issue tracker and paste the contents of your MercurialEclipse console > there. > > Thank you. > > > 2017-12-05 19:11 GMT+01:00 Peter Kronenberg <[email protected]>: > >> >> >> We created a clone of just a single branch in our repo by specifying the >> branch name on the clone screen: >> >> [image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/j1OKE.png] >> >> >> >> But when we do a pull, it pulls everything from including other branches. >> We tried setting this option in Preferences: >> >> [image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/DXtuF.png] >> >> but it doesn't seem to have any effect, or at least no affect that we can >> see. >> >> >> How can we get it to only pull one branch. >> >> >> Is there any documentation for all the various options and settings? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MercurialEclipse" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MercurialEclipse" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MercurialEclipse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
