How can one access a hidden changeset from a Mercurial server?

Question

I have a clone of a remote repository which supports Mercurial topics.

In this version of hg-evolve when the changesets are rebased (for instance) they are hidden.

I need to access the exact working directory at a hidden changeset which I do not have on my local clone. I have verified that other people's clones do have that changeset available via the --hidden flag of most mercurial commands.

I have tried:

hg --hidden clone hg --hidden pull

but neither seem to have any affect.

Answer 1

Cloning the repository using hg clone --stream will include the hidden changesets, if they're available on the server.