Best practices for publishing extensions

Wagner Bruna wagner.bruna+mercurial at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 09:21:38 CDT 2011


On 04/03/2011 12:16 PM, Greg Ward wrote:
> 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!

You could also keep the relative subrepo references, but configure your
webserver to redirect each subrepo request to its respective master URL.

Regards,
Wagner


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