Re: Any way to query mercurial to "show me all changes on $tree since $date" without creating a local clone?

Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> To make tinderbox aware of mercurial based cws, there's one problem I
> couldn't solve yet.
> 
> It isn't possible to query a remote repository for a log/changes.
> You'd have to create a local clone.
> 
> This obviously is not an option for tinderbox, given the size of the
> OOo repository and the amount of cws to deal with.

hi Christian,

tinderbox is from mozilla, right?
iirc, mozilla switched to hg some time ago.
so i would assume they have some kind of solution for this problem.
have you investigated what they are doing?

if all else fails, then you could probably get by with a single local
repository, into which you pull all cws repositories. hopefully, the pull
should indicate whether it actually pulled something, and if it did, it
will be the "tip" in the local repository. this would not be horribly
slow, because you only pull the large changes that are common in all cws
(from rebase) _once_.

but i am not an expert in mercurial; probably there is a simpler way to
get the info you want.

regards,
michael

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