how to clone a local kernel src tree

[Will Maier]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:36:29PM +0530, pradeep singh rautela wrote:
> BTW it is not valid i guess.source and destination are same here.
> 
> Thanks for the tip, but didn't work out :(
> 
> This is what i did.
> $cd /mnt/reiser
> $cd linux-2.6.18
> $hg init [this created a .hg in the kernel src]
> $hg commit -A[why am i supposed to do this now? :(]

Because 'init' only creates the repo -- it doesn't add files.
'commit' with the -A option adds and commits all files to the repo.
If you don't add anything, you don't have anything to clone.

See
    
    $ hg help init
    $ hg help commit

> $hg clone /mnt/reiser/linux-2.6.18 /mnt/reiser/hg-kernel-repo
> $ls hg-kernel-repo [all i get is a dir with .hg]
> 
> Why no src files?

By default (at least in Mercurial 0.9.3; I assume older versions as
well), clone automatically runs an update on the new repo. You
_should_ see the files there after the clone.

Read the output of
    
    $ hg help clone

for more information.

Here's what I see:

    $ mkdir repo-test
    $ cd repo-test/
    $ for i in a b c d e f; do
    > date > $i
    > done
    $ hg init
    $ hg status
    ? a
    ? b
    ? c
    ? d
    ? e
    ? f
    $ hg commit -A -m "Add all files."
    adding a
    adding b
    adding c
    adding d
    adding e
    adding f
    $ hg tip
    changeset:   0:d87561552bb8
    tag:         tip
    user:        Will Maier <willmaier at ml1.net>
    date:        Wed Jun 06 04:50:26 2007 -0500
    summary:     Add all files.

    $ hg manifest
    a
    b
    c
    d
    e
    f
    $ hg clone . ../kernel-clone
    $ cd ../kernel-clone
    $ ls
    $ a b c d e f
    $ hg tip
    changeset:   0:d87561552bb8
    tag:         tip
    user:        Will Maier <willmaier at ml1.net>
    date:        Wed Jun 06 04:50:26 2007 -0500
    summary:     Add all files.

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