How to check out the openjdk source code from the mercurial repositories

[Alan Bateman]

Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
> I think it is important that a recent stock mercurial install
> can check out the full openjdk with a single clone
> command.
>
> I.e. you should not have to install special extensions just
> to get the source code.
>
>
I think this is a reasonable goal as it's probably confusing to folks 
today that they need to do seven "hg clone" commands to get everything 
(or else they need to go through hoops to get the forest extension 
working if they want the convenience of the fclone command). At the same 
time, and as Phil mentioned on another thread, I think most people are 
working in only one or a small subset of the repositories. If you've got 
the disk space then having all the repositories might not be a problem; 
the important thing (from a productivity perspective) is to continue to 
allow partial builds (meaning building a subset of the repositories and 
augmenting that with pre-built bits of the other repositories) and of 
course incremental builds within that when working in a specific area.

-Alan