Re: switching from CVS to Mercurial

[Shai Ayal]

On Feb 6, 2008 12:17 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've decided to go with Mercurial.
>
> I'm almost ready to switch to using it exclusively for managing the
> Octave sources, but before I do that, I thought I'd announce the
> change, let people check out the archive, and ask for comments on a
> few more things.
>
> First, I converted the CVS trunk and release-3-0-0-branch to
> Mercurial.  A read-only version of the my archive is publicly
> accessible here:
>
>   http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
>
> You can clone the repository with the command:
>
>   hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
>
> The repository itself is approximately 47MB  That includes all the
> main trunk history from the beginning of time (around August of 1993;
> I have no idea why I wasn't at least using RCS before that).  I think
> the size is reasonable given that the unpacked sources are about
> 31MB.  It's small compared to the full CVS archive (i.e., all the RCS
> files on the server), which occupies around 95MB.
>

cloning was straighforward using the commandline you supplied, However
the repository is 75MB on my computer (measured using du -sh octave/).
Otherwise all okks fine, and the web interface at
http://www.octave.org/hg/octave is also quite nice

Shai