Guido Ostkamp <ooo <at> ostkamp.fastmail.fm> writes: > Furthermore I strongly believe that using 'clone' might be a lot slower > than downloading a binary file (might it be a 'bundle' or a 'tarball') > over 'http' or 'ftp' with a modern download assistant using multiple > connection at the same time.
Thats why I proposed RelEng to make bundles (which are only tarballs in the end) available. It is still under consideration, but I guess after the pilot we will get bundles. > Looking at SVN repo I had originally expected much more and huge > changesets but it seems DEV300 does not to contain the complete history. AFAIK it does (well, complete master history). > This means, 'clone' is not an option here, but one should 'clone' or 'cp' > an already existing copy of DEV300 locally, and then 'hg pull' that CWS > into the copy; otherwise everything is transferred again and much disk > space is wasted. Yes, that is the usual practice. Have Fun, Bjoern --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
