Tarball support v0.2

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Sat Aug 20 01:19:21 CDT 2005


On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 04:24:11AM +0200, Wojciech Milkowski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for all comments on my work. I implemented few Bryan suggestions:
> - There's support for zip, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives now.
> - More common archive name (repository basedir + revision number)
>   - it could be revision hash too but I'm not experienced Mercurial
>   developer nor python coder, and I haven't yet figured out how to
>   obtain revision string based on manifest string. Suggestions welcome ;).
> - everything is packed in one directory (same name as tarball)
> - code cleanup
> 
> Local cache and hgrc options will be implemented in near future, when 
> I'll find some spare time.

I'd rather not have the local cache. If it's too expensive, it should
just be disabled. Cache management is a nuisance.

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