Peter, It's perfectly fine to just copy entire forest.
Local clone is faster than copy, but you have to restore .hg/hgrc afterward if you plan to do the push from this workspace. My typical workflow: 1. The script mirrors hs-rt and dev to dedicated machine every night. It is always a full clone from scratch. 3. Starting a new CR, I create a directory with CR number, file called "comments" with ojdk push message and copy nightly workspace to it. 4. When fix is ready, I create a webrev against local ws (webrev -N) and put it to cr.openjdk.java.net using sshfs or special script. 5. After all reviews, I go to one of shared server, clone fresh workspace, apply patch form webrev to it and submit a commit job. -Dmitry On 2014-04-12 05:12, Pete Brunet wrote: > Hi Jon, I am on VPN from Austin. It has always taken forever. And > downloading programs from the internet when on VPN takes forever. I > started looking into this a while back and I don't know if this is the > issue but I found that the DNS servers are in Europe when I am on VPN. > Right now as reported by ipconfig /all my Cisco AnyConnect DNS servers are: > > 144.20.190.70 in Madrid > 192.135.82.132 in Amsterdam > > Pete > > On 4/11/14 7:07 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote: >> To me, this message raises the questions of "why does it take >> forever?" and, "how long should it take?" >> >> I see a wide range of expectations. Some folk can clone fast, and >> assume that everyone else can as well. And then there's reports like >> this, that it takes "forever". >> >> I'm all in favor of doing whatever it takes to speed up the workflow, >> but where is the threshold between "yeah, it really does take this >> long" and "if it takes this long, something must be broken"? >> >> -- Jon >> >> >> On 04/11/2014 04:26 PM, Pete Brunet wrote: >>> Since it takes forever to clone on my Win machine, in the case where I >>> want to work on several bugs, is it OK to instead clone the first >>> directory and then cp -ar that to n additional directories? -Pete >> > -- Dmitry Samersoff Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia * I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
