Tests narrow stream clones $ . "$TESTDIR/narrow-library.sh" Server setup $ hg init master $ cd master $ mkdir dir $ mkdir dir/src $ cd dir/src $ for x in `$TESTDIR/seq.py 20`; do echo $x > "f$x"; hg add "f$x"; hg commit -m "Commit src $x"; done $ cd .. $ mkdir tests $ cd tests $ for x in `$TESTDIR/seq.py 20`; do echo $x > "f$x"; hg add "f$x"; hg commit -m "Commit src $x"; done $ cd ../../.. Trying to stream clone when the server does not support it $ hg clone --narrow ssh://user@dummy/master narrow --noupdate --include "dir/src/f10" --stream streaming all changes remote: abort: server does not support narrow stream clones abort: pull failed on remote [255] Enable stream clone on the server $ echo "[server]" >> master/.hg/hgrc $ echo "stream-narrow-clones=True" >> master/.hg/hgrc Cloning a specific file when stream clone is supported $ hg clone --narrow ssh://user@dummy/master narrow --noupdate --include "dir/src/f10" --stream streaming all changes remote: abort: server does not support narrow stream clones abort: pull failed on remote [255]