Bash Script to pull mercurial repo changeset-by-changeset (inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4716200/is-there-any-way-to-clone-a-repository-from-the-web-incrementally )
NOTE: CURRENTLY OPTIMIZED FOR mozilla-central repo. I wish to find no. of total revisions in future.
One probable way might be curling the remote address and finding the changeset (Does not know yet if all the remote repo could be supported like this)
##Get it working
- Clone the Repo.
- Go over to the directory.
- Run
./clone.sh <remote-repo-addr> <local-addr>. - If you have cancelled the process, go to
<local-addr>and run./pull.sh.
#Problems
- hg does not allow shallow clone, so we HAVE to clone every-freakin-thing.
- hg cannot pause-and-resume the clone, so people having low-internet-speed are sucked!
#Solution?
- Mimic the pause-and-resume scenario by pulling only some changeset at a time, saving the state and resuming.
#Still under Development. Please Contribute or Suggest Features!