Re: Speed up unbundling of hg bundles

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost>]

> what is the fastest way to get a working local clone of the NetBSD-src 
> Mercurial repository?

> I am currently using the following scheme:

> # ftp https://cdn.netbsd.org/_bundles/src/77d2a2ece3a06d837da45acd0fda80086ab4113c.zstd.hg
> # hg init src
> # cd src
> # hg unbundle ../77d2a2ece3a06d837da45acd0fda80086ab4113c.zstd.hg

> The last command has now been running for 20 hours at 100% CPU 
> utilisation of one core by a Python process. I know from previous 
> attempts that it may well take that long. Given these times, would it 
> make sense to provide a .tar.gz of an already "unbundled" repository as 
> a basis? Or does that already exist and I haven't found it yet?

> Thank you and best regards
> Matthias (Petermann)

Is it not possible to use "hg clone ..." like "git clone" and not have to run for 20 hours or more?

Such a slow download would make users give up on NetBSD.

Where do you get the long name of that file to download?

You shouldn't have to use ftp for hg any more than you'd use ftp for a git-clone.

Tom