mercurial working copy of FreeBSD src

Xin LI delphij at delphij.net
Fri Aug 8 21:26:16 UTC 2008


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Navdeep Parhar wrote:
| Hello everyone,
|
| I'm looking for the fastest way to get a full mercurial repository of
| HEAD.
|
| I tried using hgsvn and the tree at http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head
| but it looks like the first hgpullsvn operation will take days
(literally):
|
| $ hgimportsvn http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head
| $ cd head
| $ hgpullsvn  <=== This will take a long long time
|
| Does anyone know of a faster way to do this?  Is there a mercurial
| repository out there somewhere from where I can simply "hg clone" my
| copy?

Perhaps someone should share a tarball of the hgpullsvn output,
otherwise it would be a nightmare for svn.freebsd.org...

Another thought would be the hg mirror provided by .fr people, which is
http://hg.fr.freebsd.org/.  Note that this seems to be a CVS sourced one.

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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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