Re: [BUNDLE] Testing a simpler inter-domain transport

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:23:58PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 05:12 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:38:51PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > 	I've finally found time to resurrect my "share" code, update it for Xen
> > > 3.0 and (with Tony Breeds' help) created a simple LAN driver.  You can
> > > find the bundle here:
> > > 
> > > 	http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/xen/xen-share-2006-02-05.hg
> > 
> >   Hum, I tried
> >     hg clone http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/xen/xen-share-2006-02-05.hg
> > and my version fails with a zlib compression error raising an incorrect header
> > check, 

Hmm, never tried that. Surprised it got anywhere at all.

> It's a bundle, so you should use:
> 
> 	hg unbundle http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/xen/xen-share-2006-02-07.hg
> 
> (Note the updated version).
> 
> It'd be cool if clone did the Right Thing here, though...

Well clone can't in this case, as this isn't a full repo history. But
pull could..

We'd have to teach pull/clone to do a preliminary query on a URL to
see if it was a bundle.

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