What is the mercurial equivalent of 'svn cat'?

Question

I want to print the contents of a single file from a remote repository, at a specified revision. How can I do that? In svn, it'd be:

svn cat <path to remote file>

update

The main thing I want to avoid is cloning the entire repository; some of the ones I'm working with are quite large, and I just need project metadata from a single file within.

Answer 1

There's two ways to do what you want:

1. Clone the repository locally, and execute the appropriate hg cat -r REV FILE against it
2. Use a web interface that gives access to the remote repository

If you don't have the web interface, then you need to clone.