Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-05 Thread Jeff Squyres
Yes, you are exactly right -- I was not verbose enough to express what I meant. Given that we're somewhat wary about the immature state of HG's toolset, it could be a good interim solution until someday possibly entirely switching to HG. On May 5, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Josh Hursey wrote:

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-05 Thread Josh Hursey
A feature like this would be useful for a large project to stage the transition from SVN to HG such that it does not occur abruptly. I don't know if it would be useful or not as a permanent solution, but something to consider. It is certainly something interesting to watch. -- Josh On M

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-05 Thread Jeff Squyres
Depending on how that works, it could be quite interesting -- it opens up the possibility of leaving SVN as the "back-end" repository, but also fully supporting HG as well. I don't know if that's really sensible / useful (i.e., why not fully convert to HG if we're going to do HG), but it's

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-05 Thread Josh Hursey
Per our conversation in Chicago - It looks like Mercurial has a Google Summer of Code student working on the Mercurial -push-> Subversion problem we were talking about: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/hg/appinfo.html? csaid=2757CDDD2156F1A7 For those not at the meeting this has to do with

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-05 Thread Jeff Squyres
On May 5, 2008, at 7:49 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: Mercurial is a fully distributed system. So instead of thinking of /tmp branch, you should think of publishing your repository, which has your commits in it. As I understand it, open-mpi.org is not set up for publishing other repositories yet

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-05 Thread Terry Dontje
Roland Dreier wrote: > > > Can I make a /tmp branch from the hg read-only branch that is not tied > > > to the svn /tmp branches. > > Why do you want to do that? > > > > Mercurial is a fully distributed system, so you could just start > > committing to one of your local copies of the re

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-04 Thread Roland Dreier
> > > Can I make a /tmp branch from the hg read-only branch that is not tied > > > to the svn /tmp branches. > > Why do you want to do that? > > > > Mercurial is a fully distributed system, so you could just start > > committing to one of your local copies of the repository, and I can't

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-03 Thread Jeff Squyres
On May 3, 2008, at 7:23 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: Same reason you do an SVN tmp branch. So others (outside of my employer's WAN) can actually clone the branch and try it out before you push it back to the repository. From my original mail :-) -- "We're still working on a way for OMPI core

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-03 Thread Terry Dontje
Ralph Castain wrote: Sure: hg clone http://www.open-mpi.org/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/ompi-svn-mirror my-tmp I want the tmp to reside on www.open-mpi.org not in my own directory. --td On 5/2/08 9:57 AM, "Terry Dontje" wrote: Jeff Squyres wrote: On May 2, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Terry Dontj

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-03 Thread Terry Dontje
Roland Dreier wrote: > Can I make a /tmp branch from the hg read-only branch that is not tied > to the svn /tmp branches. Why do you want to do that? Mercurial is a fully distributed system, so you could just start committing to one of your local copies of the repository, and I can't see any

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-02 Thread Roland Dreier
> Can I make a /tmp branch from the hg read-only branch that is not tied > to the svn /tmp branches. Why do you want to do that? Mercurial is a fully distributed system, so you could just start committing to one of your local copies of the repository, and I can't see anything missing that a /t

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-02 Thread Ralph Castain
Sure: hg clone http://www.open-mpi.org/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/ompi-svn-mirror my-tmp On 5/2/08 9:57 AM, "Terry Dontje" wrote: > Jeff Squyres wrote: >> On May 2, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: >> >> >>> Is there a way to make a hg specific /tmp branch? >>> >> >> >> I'm not sure wha

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-02 Thread Terry Dontje
Jeff Squyres wrote: On May 2, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: Is there a way to make a hg specific /tmp branch? I'm not sure what you're asking...? Can I make a /tmp branch from the hg read-only branch that is not tied to the svn /tmp branches. --td

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-02 Thread Jeff Squyres
On May 2, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: Is there a way to make a hg specific /tmp branch? I'm not sure what you're asking...? -- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems

Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-02 Thread Terry Dontje
Jeff Squyres wrote: Taking steps towards Mercurial, we have setup a read-only Mercurial mirror of the official OMPI SVN repository: http://www.open-mpi.org/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/ompi-svn-mirror/ Anything you commit to SVN should show up on the HG mirror within 30 minutes. This mirror is cu

[OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror

2008-05-02 Thread Jeff Squyres
Taking steps towards Mercurial, we have setup a read-only Mercurial mirror of the official OMPI SVN repository: http://www.open-mpi.org/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/ompi-svn-mirror/ Anything you commit to SVN should show up on the HG mirror within 30 minutes. This mirror is currently *only* the /tr