Re: mercurial now live

[aq <aquynh@gmail.com>]

On 7/1/05, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > > > To avoid taxing the Mercurial server with a complete pull
> > of the Xen
> > > > repository, it is best to download a tarball of a seed repository
> > > > from:
> > > >
> > > >    http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg
> > >
> > > I cannot find the "seed repository". Where to get it?
> 
> Oops, my posting last night was far from clear about that. Fortunately,
> the downloads web page has all the information you need.
> 
> You can get the seed tar bar for the unstable tree from:
> 
> 
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/downloads/xen-unstable.hg
> .tar.gz
> 
> (similarly for xen-2.0 and xen-2.0-testing)
> 
> Just untar the file, 'cd' into it, and run:
> 
>  hg pull
>  hg co
> 
> The .hg/hgrc file in the tar ball should automatically set as your
> default pull parent to the folllwing URL, but you can do it manually
> too:
> 
>  http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg
> 
> > oops, with the snapshot hg, we can easily clone xen with:
> >
> > hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg myxen
> >
> > (mercurial 0.6 doesnt support clone command)
> 
> You don't need the new clone command. You can have the same effect as
> 'bk clone' with:
> 
>   mkdir xen-unstable.hg
>   hg init http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg

anyway, looks like "hg init <source>" is deprecated in hg snapshot
version (hg would complains and exits). instead  "hg clone" is a
recommended method.

regards,
aq