Can I clone part of a Mercurial repository?

Question

Is it possible to clone part of a Mercurial repository? Let\'s say the repository is quite large, or contains multiple projects, or multiple branches. Can I clone only part

Answer 1

To my knowledge, that's not possible. But compared to Subversrion, cloning the whole repos may not be slower than just a branch from SVN.

Quoting from UnderstandingMercurial:

Many SVN/CVS users expect to host related projects together in one repository. This is really not what hg was made for, so you should try a different way of working. This especially means, that you cannot check out only one directory of a repository.

If you absolutely need to host multiple projects in a kind of meta-repository though, you could try the Subrepositories feature that was introduced with Mercurial 1.3 or the older ForestExtension.