[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

[Tres Seaver]

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Terry Reedy wrote:

> This is perhaps a naive question, but hat do you gain with the 
> intermediate mirror clone of upstream? (Other than filling more of your 
> disk?)

I gain having my local changes be in a "scratchpad" repsitory, which I
can discard at will without requiring a re-fetch of the whole repository
from the mirror server, which takes a loooong time and (apparently) puts
significant load on that server.

As Antoine noted, hg shares the disk space via hard links where
possible;  where not, what's a few hundred megabytes, more or less?


Tres.
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