On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Richard Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I am getting the new source code but I realized that the cloning takes >> a long time. Is this normal or is there a problem with my PC? >> >> > Cloning mozilla-central transfers ~1GB over the wire, and expands out to a > quarter-million files. A very fast Linux machine with a fast network > connection can clone it in under five minutes, but your operating system, > machine specs, and network connection will make a huge difference. > > It will be no faster than downloading a GB of data, and will probably be a > fair bit slower. > > Make sure you're running Mercurial 3.6 or higher; it's 25%+ faster at > cloning, given that it has native support for bundles when cloning. > What Richard says is all correct, but it's worth explicitly plugging https://hg.cdn.mozilla.net/, which delivers bundles independently of hg. You might have a better time downloading, applying the bundle, and then pulling up-to-date changesets on top. At the end of the day, the repository is about 1GB and requires a fast disk to work with comfortably. Yours, Nick
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