I'm fairly comfortable with SVN, but have been looking at Mercurial for it's ability to perform offline commits. Something I haven't been able to figure out is how to do an unversioned export an old tagged rev. In SVN the tags would just live in a \tags folder in the repo, then I could just export something from there, but it doesn't seem like the same trunk-branches-tags directories are used for Hg projects (or are they?)
The best I can figure out is to just clone the repository at some rev then delete the .hg folder. TortoiseHg doesn't display the list of tags either, so I clone, browse through the log, update to whatever, then delete /.hg. This seems really clumsy, is there some preferred method?
Use 'hg archive'.
hg archive [OPTION]... DEST
create an unversioned archive of a repository revision
By default, the revision used is the parent of the working
directory; use -r/--rev to specify a different revision.
To specify the type of archive to create, use -t/--type. Valid
types are:
"files" (default): a directory full of files
"tar": tar archive, uncompressed
"tbz2": tar archive, compressed using bzip2
"tgz": tar archive, compressed using gzip
"uzip": zip archive, uncompressed
"zip": zip archive, compressed using deflate
The exact name of the destination archive or directory is given
using a format string; see 'hg help export' for details.
Each member added to an archive file has a directory prefix
prepended. Use -p/--prefix to specify a format string for the
prefix. The default is the basename of the archive, with suffixes
removed.
options:
--no-decode do not pass files through decoders
-p --prefix directory prefix for files in archive
-r --rev revision to distribute
-t --type type of distribution to create
-I --include include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude exclude names matching the given patterns
The -r argument will accept tag names, and -t files will get a directory if you don't want an archive file.