Chasing changing repository locations

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 09:20 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I just noticed that the main development repository for OpenJDK has moved
> again from [1] to [2]. Can someone explain me what happened and why the
> repository was moved?

There was an effort to go from Mercurial forests to one consolidated
repo:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk10-dev/2017-June/000371.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk10-dev/2017-September/000455.html

[1] might have been a temporary place, I'm losing track :(

[2] is the new place for new hotspot, AFAIK. It looks like [1] and [2]
have the same layout. You might be able to add the new location via a
new path by changing '.hg/hgrc'. Confirm with hg paths.

$ hg paths
default = http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/hs

HTH,
Severin

> I was a bit confused because I submitted a changeset, it got accepted and
> merged but my change didn't show up the old repository [1]. Then I searched
> around and found out it ended up in [2].
> 
> This is mildly annoying since I will now have to check out the repository
> again which takes quite some time on some of the development machines I use
> (not all of them are mine and some have a slower internet connection than
>  others) and there is also the risk that I miss important changes and my
> changes conflict with changes already submitted in the moved repository.
> 
> Is there a system behind the repositories moving around? And is there a way
> to track this easily, e.g. does Mercurial have any commands that are particularly
> useful in these situations? Is there maybe a way to add the new repository as
> a new remote in Mercurial similar to what can be done in git with "git remote"
> and then just fetch the changes from the new repository?
> 
> Sorry if my questions seem a bit stupid, I'm just trying to understand the
> workflow behind the current systems :-).
> 
> Thanks,
> Adrian
> 
> > [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk10/hs/
> > [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/hs/
> 
>