Cloning a big mercurial project

Steve Borho steve at borho.org
Mon Nov 16 20:43:49 CST 2009


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Remy HUBSCHER <hubscher.remy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am now using mercurial for the best and also because it is in Python.
>
> One of the thing, I am wishing for a while, is a loading bar for the `hg
> clone` option.
>
> I am stuck for 2 hours on this message :
>
>   requesting all changes
>   adding changesets
>   adding manifests
>   adding file changes
>
> And I don't even know how long I should still wait or why I am waiting.
>
> My wish is to have a statuts (Something like git could do it)
>
>   requesting all changes
>   adding changesets [256/256]
>   adding manifests [502/502]
>   adding file changes [256/1024]
>
> So I can see that something is happening.
> This is the minimum but something like this could be even better.
>
>   adding file changes [256/1024]  www/foo/bar.py      2,36Ko/s  eta: 56 mn

The "plumbing" for a feature like this has been present since hg 1.3,
but actually hooking it up has not made it to the top of any
developer's TODO list.

> Is there any reason of why it is not yet implemented in Mercurial ?
> I couldn't find the mercurial project repository of mercurial. All I found
> is hg-website.
> Where is it ?

http://selenic.com/repo/hg

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Steve Borho


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