Bug 273135

Summary:	mercurial.eclass: when creating working directory do "hg archive" instead of "hg clone"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alex Dedul <rotmer>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) <nelchael>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Do "hg archive" instead of "hg clone" when creating a working directory

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

Steps to Reproduce:

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).