[Python-Dev] Semi-official read-only Github mirror of the CPython Mercurial repository

[Eli Bendersky]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> On Sep 30, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> https://github.com/python/cpython is now live as a semi-official, *read
> only* Github mirror of the CPython Mercurial repository. Let me know if you
> have any problems/concerns.
>
> I still haven't decided how often to update it (considering either just N
> times a day, or maybe use a Hg hook for batching). Suggestions are welcome.
>
> The methodology I used to create it is via hg-fast-export. I also tried to
> pack and gc the git repo as much as possible before the initial Github push
> - it went down from almost ~2GB to ~200MB (so this is the size of a fresh
> clone right now).
>
> Eli
>
> P.S. thanks Jesse for the keys to https://github.com/python
>
>
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> Awesome! I find Github way nicer for reading source than hg.python.org's
> web interface, any chance I could convince you to do this for the peps repo
> too? ;)
>

Here you go - https://github.com/python/peps

Both mirrors are currently updated twice per night (23:00 and 04:30 US
Pacific time). I may switch over to a VPS at some point and have more
regular updates.

Eli
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