Make a narrow clone then archive it $ . "$TESTDIR/narrow-library.sh" $ hg init master $ cd master $ for x in `$TESTDIR/seq.py 3`; do > echo $x > "f$x" > hg add "f$x" > hg commit -m "Add $x" > done $ hg serve -a localhost -p $HGPORT1 -d --pid-file=hg.pid $ cat hg.pid >> "$DAEMON_PIDS" $ cd .. $ hg clone --narrow --include f1 --include f2 http://localhost:$HGPORT1/ narrowclone1 requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files new changesets * (glob) updating to branch default 2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved The tar should only contain f1 and f2 $ cd narrowclone1 $ hg archive -t tgz repo.tgz $ tar tfz repo.tgz repo/f1 repo/f2