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

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Mar 10 16:47:11 UTC 2011


Jim Holmlund wrote:
> Kelly has a get_source.sh script in the top level repo.  I haven't 
> used it, but I presume that a developer without the forest extension 
> just has to do
>       hg clone <top level repo>
>       cd jdk7
>       ./get_source.sh
>
> - jjh
Yes, I remember it going in and is very useful (and is mentioned in the 
top-level README, but might not be widely known).

-Alan.



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