live-mirroring of repository

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 05/06/2015 09:58 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Dirk Heinrichs
> <dirk.heinrichs at recommind.com <mailto:dirk.heinrichs at recommind.com>> wrote:
>
>     Am 02.05.2015 um 12:36 schrieb Lasse Kliemann:
>
>>     My solution so far was as follows. In A, there is a hook configured:
>>
>>     changegroup = hg-hook-push URL-OF-B
>>
>>     And in B, we have:
>>
>>     changegroup = hg-hook-push URL-OF-A
>
>     I think the better approach would be some kind of transparent proxy,
>     like gitolite does for git. Admin defines one repo as the master,
>     while all others are slaves. People can then pull from and push to
>     their nearest slave. However, the pushes are silently redirected to
>     the master, which in turn pushes further to all slaves. No race
>     conditions anymore.
>
>     The downside is: I don't know any Mercurial repo management tool
>     that can do this. Does anybody else?
>
>
> I think this is a feature that should be added to core Mercurial. A few
> posts back I suggested it could be implemented as an extension to
> bundle2. It could probably be done on top of the classic protocol. But
> bundle2 has atomic transfer of push data, making it much better suited
> for use in a transparent proxy.

Looks like this could be implemented a pretxnclose hooks?

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Pierre-Yves David