Setting up the Mercurial Repositories for Sumatra

[Brian Goetz]

I think you'd rather just clone from jdk8.  Most of the lambda language 
bits are already there, and the rest will be there soon.  At some point 
long before Sumatra is done, lambda will go away.

On 12/6/2012 11:36 AM, Deneau, Tom wrote:
> How do we get the initial Mercurial repositories created for the Sumatra project?
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> We believe a clone of the http://hg.openjdk.java.net/lambda/lambda forest will be a good starting point.
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> In addition I have a question about branching.  Assuming the Sumatra project is going to have a main trunk and also some experimental branches that may or may not get merged into the main trunk, is there a page that explains which of the many branching models supported by Mercurial would be used?
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>>From looking at other projects it looks like separate repositories are made for each branch?  If we went that way, what is the process when someone wants to create a new branch?
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> -- Tom Deneau, AMD
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