copy folders instead of sequential hg clones

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Peter,

It's perfectly fine to just copy entire forest.

Local clone is faster than copy, but you have to restore .hg/hgrc
afterward if you plan to do the push from this workspace.

My typical workflow:

1. The script mirrors hs-rt and dev to dedicated machine every night. It
is always a full clone from scratch.

3. Starting a new CR, I create a directory with CR number, file called
"comments" with ojdk push message and copy nightly workspace to it.

4. When fix is ready, I create a webrev against local ws (webrev -N) and
put it to cr.openjdk.java.net using sshfs or special script.

5. After all reviews, I go to one of shared server, clone fresh
workspace, apply patch form webrev to it and submit a commit job.

-Dmitry


On 2014-04-12 05:12, Pete Brunet wrote:
> Hi Jon, I am on VPN from Austin.  It has always taken forever.  And
> downloading programs from the internet when on VPN takes forever.  I
> started looking into this a while back and I don't know if this is the
> issue but I found that the DNS servers are in Europe when I am on VPN. 
> Right now as reported by ipconfig /all my Cisco AnyConnect DNS servers are:
> 
> 144.20.190.70 in Madrid
> 192.135.82.132 in Amsterdam
> 
> Pete
> 
> On 4/11/14 7:07 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>> To me, this message raises the questions of "why does it take
>> forever?" and, "how long should it take?"
>>
>> I see a wide range of expectations. Some folk can clone fast, and
>> assume that everyone else can as well.  And then there's reports like
>> this, that it takes "forever".
>>
>> I'm all in favor of doing whatever it takes to speed up the workflow,
>> but where is the threshold between "yeah, it really does take this
>> long" and "if it takes this long, something must be broken"?
>>
>> -- Jon
>>
>>
>> On 04/11/2014 04:26 PM, Pete Brunet wrote:
>>> Since it takes forever to clone on my Win machine, in the case where I
>>> want to work on several bugs, is it OK to instead clone the first
>>> directory and then cp -ar that to n additional directories?  -Pete
>>
> 


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Dmitry Samersoff
Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia
* I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.