Sorry about the wrong info I sent out! Alex Johnson Mozillian (https://mozillians.org/u/alex_johnson/) https://www.alex-johnson.net On Jan 25, 2016 11:46 AM, "Nicholas Alexander" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Richard Newman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> So I am getting the new source code but I realized that the cloning takes >>> a long time. Is this normal or is there a problem with my PC? >>> >>> >> Cloning mozilla-central transfers ~1GB over the wire, and expands out to >> a quarter-million files. A very fast Linux machine with a fast network >> connection can clone it in under five minutes, but your operating system, >> machine specs, and network connection will make a huge difference. >> >> It will be no faster than downloading a GB of data, and will probably be >> a fair bit slower. >> >> Make sure you're running Mercurial 3.6 or higher; it's 25%+ faster at >> cloning, given that it has native support for bundles when cloning. >> > > What Richard says is all correct, but it's worth explicitly plugging > https://hg.cdn.mozilla.net/, which delivers bundles independently of hg. > You might have a better time downloading, applying the bundle, and then > pulling up-to-date changesets on top. > > At the end of the day, the repository is about 1GB and requires a fast > disk to work with comfortably. > > Yours, > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev > >
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