Best practices for publishing extensions

[Greg Ward]

On 03 April 2011, Adrian Buehlmann said:
> >> Oh dear. Sounds like a invitation to move from Distributed Version
> >> Control to Distributed Denial of Service :-)
> >>
> >> N users doing 65 repo pulls.
> >>
> >> And no one will be looking at the code in those 65 subrepos anyway...

Hmmm, another good reason for allextensions to use absolute URLs in
.hgsub: now the load is spread out across various servers (mostly
bitbucket.org) instead of hammering hg.gerg.ca!

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> It will then go like this on Windows:
> 
>   $ hg clone http://hg.gerg.ca/allextensions
>   destination directory: allextensions
>   requesting all changes
>   adding changesets
>   adding manifests
>   adding file changes
>   added 10 changesets with 20 changes to 6 files
>   updating to branch default
>   pulling subrepo Artemis from http://hg.mrzv.org/Artemis
>   requesting all changes
>   adding changesets
>   adding manifests
>   adding file changes
>   added 55 changesets with 108 changes to 47 files
>   abort: The directory name is invalid: C:\Users\adi\hgrepos\allextensions\Artemis\aux

Ouch.  One bad update crashes the entire recursive clone.  If only you
had used "clone -U".  This feels wrong.

> (Ok. Purpose #2 accomplished: I started playing with subrepos :-)

*evil laugh* my secret hidden agenda takes another step forward *cackle*

        Greg