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Bug 273135 - mercurial.eclass: when creating working directory do "hg archive" instead of "hg clone"
Summary: mercurial.eclass: when creating working directory do "hg archive" instead of ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2009-06-08 04:47 UTC by Alex Dedul
Modified: 2009-06-28 10:25 UTC (History)
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Do "hg archive" instead of "hg clone" when creating a working directory (mercurial.eclass.patch,427 bytes, patch)
2009-06-08 04:49 UTC, Alex Dedul 		Details | Diff
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Description Alex Dedul 2009-06-08 04:47:42 UTC 
Now when creating working directory in mercurial_fetch() it calls "hg clone" which is quite slow on a large repositories. It copies the whole repository with all changesets/manifests/etc while all we need is just the latest files from repository and "hg archive" command does exactly that and it is much faster. So attaching trivial patch for this.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Alex Dedul 2009-06-08 04:49:30 UTC 
Created attachment 193847 [details, diff]
Do "hg archive" instead of "hg clone" when creating a working directory
Comment 2 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-06-28 10:25:07 UTC 
No, some packages may rely on being built inside a repository (for example to get revision id).