Creating new IcedTea repos

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:57 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 23:09 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > One bottleneck working on IcedTea was that it wasn't easy to create new
> > repos or clone existing ones. That has now been solved. Everybody who
> > can push to IcedTea can now clone repos for release or private (but
> > public) branches, or create new repos for work related to IcedTea that
> > they want to host (the only requirement is that the work is Free
> > Software of course).
> 
> hg-remote-clone got one additional feature, -r <rev> which lets you
> clone a repository up to <rev> instead of the whole history of the
> original repo. It can be used everywhere below, just as if doing a
> normal hg clone -r. Please only use when needed, it is less efficient
> than doing a full clone, so doing a full clone, or a -r tip one, is
> preferred when you just want the full history for a branch.

One oddity here which bit me while testing.

Just like a normal hg clone, if you hg clone -r some-tag, it will clone
up-to, but not include, the tag. That is because the tagging is just a
normal commit, that adds the tag name and the (previous) revision number
to the .hgtags file.

So, if you want to include the tag, look in the hg log for the revision
number one past the tag revision number itself.

> > When creating a release repo from on of the main repos under /hg do:
> > 
> > ssh <repo>@icedtea.classpath.org \
> >   hg-remote-clone /hg/<repo> /hg/release/<repo>-x.y
> > 
> > Please do coordinate first on the version string/extension used.
> > Release branches will show up under http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/ and
> > have a release/ prefix.
> > 
> > When creating a repo for a private repo under your own /people/<user>/
> > tree do:
> > hg init ssh://<user>@icedtea.classpath.org/people/<user>/<repo-name>
> > 
> > Or if you already have a local repo then you can push it through:
> > hg clone <repo-name> \
> >   ssh://<user>@icedtea.classpath.org/people/<user>/<reponame>
> > 
> > But if it is work based on an existing repo (either
> > under /hg, /hg/release or /people/<someone>/) then please do a server hg
> > clone to safe bandwidth and disk-space on the server by:
> > 
> > ssh <repo>@icedtea.classpath.org \
> >   hg-remote-clone /hg/<repo> /people/<user>/<repo-name>
> > 
> > These personal repos will also show up under
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/people/ and will have your <user> name
> > and / as prefix.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Mark
>