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Re: Problem cloning mercurial trees



On Saturday, 17 September 2005 at 17:14, Paul Walker wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:36:47PM +0900, TAKAHASHI Tamotsu wrote:
> 
> > Oh, I've just retried to clone it and finished it now!
> > Hmm, I have no idea what mistakes I did.
> 
> Could just have been a network fault somewhere.
> 
> > Decentralized revision systems should be useful for mutt
> > because many users are maintaining many patches.
> 
> This is true; I started looking at it when I realised that I tend to work by
> "cloning" anyway, so if the tool can do it...
> 
> Plus it means other nice things - for example, if you still couldn't clone
> Brendan's repo, you could have got an identical copy from me. ;-)

This is all true, but for patch integration/maintenance you'd probably
be better served by a tool like quilt. Or you could try out the
mercurial MQ extension, which is supposed to do the same stuff from
inside mercurial, with concomitant benefits. I've been meaning to
check it out myself...

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