EXPERIMENTAL open repositories live

[Kelly O'Hair]

Just a note... We discovered that when you do the initial fclone, the
destination directory should NOT exist at all, i.e. don't do a mkdir before
the fclone.  Otherwise the top level files don't show up.

-kto


Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:10 -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> Experimental openjdk repositories!
>>
>>     http://hg.openjdk.java.net
> 
> Excellent & Congrats!
> 
> For those wanting to play with it you need the Mercurial Forest
> extension:
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ForestExtension
> 
> $ hg clone http://www.terminus.org/hg/hgforest
> 
> And add the following to your ~/.hgrc:
> 
> [extensions]
> hgext.forest=/home/mark/src/hgforest/forest.py
> 
> (With the above path replace with the location you just cloned the
> forest extension to of course.)
> 
> Then clone the MASTER repo with hg flcone instead of hg clone:
> 
> $ hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/MASTER
> 
> Happy Hacking!
> 
> Mark
> 
> P.S Don't forget to read the warning at the top of http://hg.openjdk.java.net/
> 
> NOTE: These repositories are EXPERIMENTAL as we work to finalize 
> the details of the Mercurial migration. They will be reinitialized once 
> we're finished, at which point any clones will become unrelated and 
> should be discarded.
>