[PATCH 4 of 4 RFC] clone: add a server-side option to disable full getbundles (pull-based clones)

Siddharth Agarwal sid at less-broken.com
Tue May 9 14:13:30 EDT 2017


(I was looking for feedback on both the feature and the wording -- thanks!)

On 5/8/17 23:18, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> My only non-nit concern about this patch is the wording here. Does the 
> average user know what a "pull-based clone" is? But I'm struggling to 
> come up with something obviously better. Maybe "server has traditional 
> clones disabled?" But what does "traditional" even mean.

Yeah, I was really struggling with the wording here too. This was the 
best I could come up with after half an hour or so. Suggestions are welcome!

- Siddharth


>
> Also in case anyone was wondering, the capability for preferring 
> stream clones was added in Mercurial 2.2 (released May 2012).




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