[Buildbot-devel] [ANN] Buildbot-0.7.10

[Ian Zimmerman]

Marcus Lindblom wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It was changed (in reponse to another ticket) since a full clone is 
> expensive to do over and over again. Rather, we just do 'hg init' if we 
> need to (inital setup + error recovery and maybe branch shifts), then 
> 'hg pull' from thereon, to make things leaner and speedier.
> 
> I suppose the first checkout could be a 'hg clone' instead, followed by 
> the same 'hg pull' as now.

Ticket filed (#446).

But of course I don't expect it to do a clone every time.  To my 
knowledge, it didn't do that in 0.7.8; it did essentially what you 
describe in your 2nd paragraph.  That's why this change hurts; it seems 
gratuitous.

i