I encountered this problem trying to clone the arc repo (actually, i
hit it twice for the same repo, once to inspect it and then months
later when a coworker told me he wanted to look and couldn't figure
out how to get them). I'll be glad to see it fixed.

On 10/3/08, John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Click on Get the source and we come to:
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> http://opensolaris.org/os/get/
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> Ah, I see the "clone the repositories" link. I'll click on that. This
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> gives me a list of project repos. Now, since I know Mercurial can do
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> http, I'll assume these paths can be passed to 'hg clone'. Nope.
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> (What is this link even for? It should point to opengrok at least.)
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> Hmm, go back. I see the page says this:
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> clone a Mercurial (hg) repository, use the following example command
> where
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> project is the name of the project and project-repo is the name of the
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> code repository:
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> ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/project/project-repo
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> Now, *if* I've somehow heard that the source I want (which is Nevada) is
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> called onnv, and I correctly assume that onnv-gate is the master source
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> when I looked at the link above previously, I might be able to work this
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> out. But it seems pretty hard.
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> My suggestions:
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> - remove that 'clone the repositories' link. Replace it with a link to
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>   the list of projects and correctly label it as such.
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> - add a prominent link to opengrok and label it as browse source
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>   history
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> - add a direct link to Nevada with a very brief explanation that that's
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>   what they probably want
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> regards
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>
> john
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>
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