Dealing with broken connections

Benoit Boissinot bboissin at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 08:43:16 CDT 2008


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Guido Ostkamp <hg at ostkamp.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I would like to know how stable Mercurial is when it comes
>  deal with broken connections.
>
>  When I do a clone of a very large remote repository and
>  the connection breaks in between and I have to kill
>  the Mercurial process which got stuck, what happens?

It removes the repository.
>
>  Am I left with a broken repository?
>
It doesn't leave anything.

>  Can I somehow resume the cloning, for example by using
>  'hg pull' instead of 'hg clone' to retrieve the rest of it?

No, but what you can do for unreliable connections is to provide a
bundle (the full history in one file)
that you can get via rsync or http.

>
>  What, if I have worked on a repo, then tried to update it
>  using 'pull' from upstream to fetch the latest changes,
>  and this pull fails in between due to broken connection?

The repo will rollback and you'll get the same state as before the pull.

regards,

Benoit


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