Re: Modifying Mozilla code on a separate Hg repo?

Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]> Thu, 15 May 2008 10:48:46 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex Vincent wrote:

> * I want to host a copy of the cvs-trunk-mirror repository on mozdev (or 
> at Skyfire, behind an internal firewall), and check out from that 
> location instead of from hg.mozilla.org.  Then I would make changes to 
> that repository instead of the official cvs-trunk-mirror.  (We do modify 
>  native Mozilla code a bit to meet our needs.)
>
> * mozilla.org does updates to cvs-trunk-mirror for 1.9.0.x releases, 
> which I want to import as a batch into the private repository.

I do not think we are planning on maintaining cvs-trunk-mirror after the 
next few days... once mozilla-central becomes the main development trunk, we 
will stop mirroring cvs-trunk-mirror.

What are you actually trying to do? Track changes to the 1.9.0.x codebase? 
Track changes to the mozilla-central codebase? Something else?

There are several ways to solve this problem, depending on what you're 
actually trying to accomplish.

--BDS