New candidate JEP: 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git

Aleksey Shipilev shade at redhat.com
Tue Jul 16 15:48:36 UTC 2019


On 7/16/19 5:41 PM, David Lloyd wrote:
> FWIW you can "seed" your clone if you have another one handy by
> cloning the local directory e.g. "git clone -o local ../other-checkout
> new-checkout".  Then fetching the upstream will only fetch objects
> that weren't in "other-checkout".  I do this frequently for large
> repositories, which is especially useful in laptop-in-coffee-shop
> kinds of situations.

Yes, but we are comparing "fresh clone from master server" use case here. I carry around tarballs of
Mercurial workspaces from https://builds.shipilev.net/workspaces/, and it is also blazingly fast.
But that misses the point I want to make.

-- 
Thanks,
-Aleksey



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