How to add specific subfolder of subrepo

Question

I'm comming from SVN background and I'm having a problem of adding to my main repo a subfolder of subrepo. That means that I don't want to add the whole subrepo to my main project - only a part of it. In my situation I want to include only source files of my library excluding all unit tests.

I have created .hgsub file and wrote there:

libs/my_std_lib = https://myreposhost.com/my_std_lib_repo/src/main/java/

But when I'm trying to synchronize libs/my_std_lib folder I get such error: HTTP Error: 404 (Not Found)

When I try to synchronize without subpath (https://myreposhost.com/my_std_lib_repo/) - it works well.

So what do I do wrong or this is not posible in hg?

Answer 1

The answer is pretty simple : it's impossible to clone only a part of a repository with Mercurial.

By extension, you can't add only a part of a repository as a subrepo.

Sorry.