hg clone for large repository

[Tony Mechelynck]

On 31/07/10 17:42, karkrish wrote:
>
> hi ,
>
> I tried to clone a repository of size ~1.7G in windows . It takes long time
> to clone
>
> destination directory: mytest
> requesting all changes
> adding changesets
> adding manifests
> adding file changes
> added 2908 changesets with 23759 changes to 14424 files
> updating to branch default
> Time: real 2626.080 secs (user 160.734+0.000 sys 139.766+0.000)
>
> Is there any way to clone separate directory  .
> How to speed up the clone process for such  a repository .
>
> Thanks,
> Karthi
>
>

If you have successfully cloned it once, further updates of that new 
clone will be much faster.

If you want to clone it on a third machine, produce a bundle and 
transfer that, then most of setting up the new clone can be done locally 
on the machine where the new clone will sit.

See 
http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2008-06-05/getting-mozilla-central-with-limited-bandwidth/ 
for a step-by-step procedure (for a big Mercurial repo, probably not the 
one you want to clone, but you can get inspiration from it).


Best regards,
Tony.
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