I'm looking for a command-line tool that works with a variety of version control systems (Git, SVN, Mercurial, …) and clones a remote or local repository to specified folder, e.g.,
cloner \
--source [email protected]:vtk/vtk.git \
--out $HOME/vtk
Ideally, the tool does some caching (in /tmp/ or /var/cache) such that repeated clones happen faster.
You can use mercurial, (hg), and tortoisehg which I recommend installing as it pre-populates some of the extensions for you, with some plug in components as a full client for:
You can also use the convert extension to create a hg clone of the repository from:
This can be done incrementally and once you have converted to hg you can switch to any given revision up to the point that you last updated without even web access.
Disclaimer: I have contributed to the hgsubversion plug in but gain no financial benefit from it.
