On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Jim Holmlund wrote: > > > On 3/10/2011 3:13 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: >> Fredrik Öhrström wrote: >>> I think it is important that a recent stock mercurial install >>> can check out the full openjdk with a single clone >>> command. >>> >>> I.e. you should not have to install special extensions just >>> to get the source code. >>> >>> >> I think this is a reasonable goal as it's probably confusing to folks today >> that they need to do seven "hg clone" commands to get everything (or else >> they need to go through hoops to get the forest extension working if they >> want the convenience of the fclone command). > Kelly has a get_source.sh script in the top level repo. I haven't used it, > but I presume that a developer without the forest extension just has to do > hg clone <top level repo> > cd jdk7 > ./get_source.sh
That is correct, well "sh ./get_source.sh". Documented in both the README files in the top repo. That doesn't currently help anyone with our internal closed repos, but the goal was to make getting the OpenJDK forest without using the Forest Extension. -kto > > - jjh > >> At the same time, and as Phil mentioned on another thread, I think most >> people are working in only one or a small subset of the repositories. If >> you've got the disk space then having all the repositories might not be a >> problem; the important thing (from a productivity perspective) is to >> continue to allow partial builds (meaning building a subset of the >> repositories and augmenting that with pre-built bits of the other >> repositories) and of course incremental builds within that when working in a >> specific area. >> >> -Alan >>
