Creating new IcedTea repos

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:38 +0000, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/2/25 Lillian Angel <langel at redhat.com>:
> > Mark Wielaard wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:57 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >
> > This does not seem to be the case.
> >
> > I created the minor release repo, like so:
> >
> > ssh langel at icedtea.classpath.org hg-remote-clone -r 0641929711bf
> > /hg/icedtea6 /hg/release/icedtea6-1.4.1
> >
> > And everything up to and including changeset 0641929711bf was added to the
> > repo, when I intended for only everything up to this changeset. This might
> > only be an issue when using the actual tag name.
> >
> Yes, you get up to the changeset you specify and everything below,
> that's the expected behaviour.
> 
> What Mark was referring to is if you use -r icedtea6-1.4 or such like.
>  The resulting changeset doesn't have a copy of .hgtags with
> icedtea6-1.4 in it, because that's in the changeset after the one that
> was tagged.

Yes, I found that odd. But maybe that seems normal if you wrap your head
around it in some other way. I was just surprised. I would also have
assumed someone might want to create a branch from a tag name, like in
this case hg-remote-clone-r icedtea6-1.4 which would result in a branch
without the actual icedtea6-1.4 tag in it.

Cheers,

Mark