On 09/20/13 12:31 AM, Blair McBride wrote: > Ohai! > > I have numerous copies of mozilla-central (and other repos) for various > purposes - spread around physical boxes and VMs. Some of them I use > regularly and update regularly, others not-regularly. I've been thinking > about the amount of time and bandwidth I waste updating them all from a > remote server (hg.mozilla.org, github, etc). I suspect I'm not alone in > this. > > So, I was thinking of setting up a local mirror of mozilla-central (and > other repos) - and update my development repos from the local mirror. > Obviously, I'd like to automatically keep the mirror up to date, but > without hammering the remote server. I was thinking regularly scheduled > updates from the remote, as well as on-demand updates whenever I pull > from the local mirror if the last scheduled update was greater than X > hours ago. > > Has anyone setup this type of system before? Or know of any tools that > already handle this? It'd be nice to save some time by working from > previous art, as well as document the process for others. > > - Blair
RelEng has a tool that does something like this on our build machines, some of us also use it locally. You can grab standalone versions for both hg and git here: https://github.com/mozilla/build-puppet/blob/master/modules/packages/files/hgtool.py https://github.com/mozilla/build-puppet/blob/master/modules/packages/files/gittool.py For hg, set HG_SHARE_BASE_DIR to something and then you can run "hgtool.py http://repo blah" to clone. It uses "hg share" to save disk space and time. For git, set GIT_SHARE_BASE_DIR and does something similar. HTH. - Ben _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
