[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness (original) (raw)

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Sat Jul 3 21:16:58 CEST 2010

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Terry Reedy wrote:

This is perhaps a naive question, but hat do you gain with the intermediate mirror clone of upstream? (Other than filling more of your disk?)

I gain having my local changes be in a "scratchpad" repsitory, which I can discard at will without requiring a re-fetch of the whole repository from the mirror server, which takes a loooong time and (apparently) puts significant load on that server.

As Antoine noted, hg shares the disk space via hard links where possible; where not, what's a few hundred megabytes, more or less?

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