why can I not download the /jdk repository

[Kelly O'Hair]

I found this old documentation when I worked on the JavaFX project, maybe this helps:

TortoiseHG (Windows)

Get the TortoiseHG Download bundle and install it. It install into the directory:
"C:/Program Files/TortoiseHG/".
After installing it:

Edit the file "C:/Program Files/TortoiseHG/Mercurial.ini" and make sure the ssh command used is from CYGWIN and not Plink. Unless of course you want to use Plink, it's up to you.
Prepend "C:/Program Files/TortoiseHG/" to your PATH, make sure it is before /usr/bin, so that running hg version tells you it is TortoiseHG.
Mercurial Tips

On Windows, the default CYGWIN hg will not work on some of the repositories, so you can downgrade the CYGWIN hg version to 1.0.2 or switch to use the TortoiseHG build of Mercurial, which is a 1.3.1 or newer version. The problem centers around the Windows limits to full pathnames. Mercurial .hg/ files can end up with much longer filenames than the file they represent in the working set, or the files you edit. The most recent releases of Mercurial have optimized these path lengths, but versions like 1.1 had made the problem worse, resulting in some of our repositories not cloning. Version 1.0.2 was ok, but 1.3.1 or newer is best. Unfortunately, at this time, 1.3.1 is not available with CYGWIN.
On Windows, the CYGWIN hg is a Python script and doesn't play well with the native Windows system. Some ant scripts try and run hg and ant will fail when running a Python script. Using TortoiseHG solves this problem because it provides a hg.exe.                
-kto

On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this may be related to Cygwin. The error "C770817 at C036357
> /cygdrive/e/OpenJDK/jdk8" indicates that you are using a
> "Cygwin-Mercurial". I would recommend to install and use a native
> Windows Mercurial (e.g.
> http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/download/index.html) and try with that
> one.
> 
> I never had problems cloning with tortoisehg, also I didn't succeed to
> push with it (I think because of some ssh/private-key issues). So I
> use the Cygwin hg for pushing, but that's not very stable for me
> either...
> 
> Regards,
> Volker
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Stadelmann Josef
> <josef.stadelmann at axa-winterthur.ch> wrote:
>> Just o inform you before I give up.
>> 
>> At the README of jdk7 or jdk8 one can read
>> 
>> ---------------
>> 
>> This one root repository can be obtained with something like:
>> 
>>     hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8 openjdk8
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   To make sure you have all the nested repositories, you can run the
>> 
>>   get_source.sh script located in the same respository as this file:
>> 
>>     cd openjdk8 && sh ./get_source.sh
>> 
>> ---------------
>> 
>> Since weeks, running the get_source.sh, download takes place for all
>> 
>> sub-repositories except and always fails for the jdk*/jdk repository.
>> 
>> "hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/ C:/OpenJDK/jdk7/jdk"
>> 
>> Watching the network, there is an immediate transfer of the .hg subdirectory
>> 
>> but then after about 20 minutes I get an abort error
>> 
>> C770817 at C036357 /cygdrive/e/OpenJDK/jdk8
>> 
>> $ hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk jdk
>> 
>> requesting all changes
>> 
>> abort: error:
>> 
>> WHY?
>> 
>> Once in the past 4 weeks, I was able to download it on a Saturday at home.
>> 
>> Josef

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