Slime project considering Mercurial

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Fri Mar 7 13:09:22 CST 2008


On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 14:36 +0100, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Patrick Mézard <pmezard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Giorgos Keramidas a écrit :
> >  > On 2008-03-07 08:06, Peter Arrenbrecht <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  >> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Paul Franz <theandromedan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > In newer versions of Mercurial, you can also do this without the extra
> >  > 'empty' workspace, by using the --all option of `hg bundle':
> >  >
> >  >     % cd /ws/foo-project/releases/1.0-patches
> >  >     % hg bundle --all /var/tmp/wiredata.bundle
> >
> >  Or use the little obscure but available for a long time:
> >
> >  % hg bundle --base null /var/tmp/wiredata.bundle
> 
> I recommended the other way because I thought it would ensure you get
> the same compression as you'd get over the wire. But I have to admit I
> don't really know if this is the case. Have not looked into this
> compression stuff yet.

The above two commands are basically equivalent.

Bundles use bzip2 compression, http transfer uses gzip, and ssh transfer
uses no compression (you should turn on compression in your ssh client
instead). The format before compression is the same though.

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