[Ns-developers] creating mercurial repos on code.nsnam.org

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:16 +0000, Gustavo Carneiro wrote:

>         
>         alternatively the following also would work:
>         -bash-3.2$ hg clone .
>         ssh://mathieu@code.nsnam.org/repositories/mathieu/ns-3-xml
> 
> Personally, I already knew this for a long time [1], but doesn't doing
> this trigger that huge email to the commits list with all the
> changesets?

yes, but, is that a problem (it's not for me) ?

> 
> [1] the reason was that when I complained that it was bad that
> mercurial incompatibly changed repository file storage format in a
> micro version upgrade, I was told I should have been doing the hg
> clone . remote-url trick instead of manually copying the files, to
> avoid the problem.

yes, copying mercurial repos _across_ machines is a tricky business.
> 
Mathieu