Re: Making NetBeans' Mercurial More Manageable

On Nov 3, 2011, at 1:36 AM, Jesse Glick wrote:
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> An easy action would be to publish a read-only Subversion mirror from which you could check out and update a subset of sources.

I think this would be useful. While creating patches is possible even if you download the source zip, having read-only svn repository would be much more convenient. Regarding the "subset" - wouldn't this also work well if you get the full (trunk) source tree? I am not sure how a newbie contributor would identify the exact subset they need - getting the whole thing would be easier. Any ideas on what could be the size of the svn sources? For the zip download, the download size is 165 MB and unpacked size on disk is 650 MB, which is still quite a big less than 3 GB for hg. How about svn?

Petr


> This might be enough for casual/infrequent contributors who are fine with running 'svn diff' and uploading to a bug report. They could not directly commit anything, creating diffs including file moves does not really work, and iterative reviews of patches is cumbersome.
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