box "off" fails

[John W. Eaton]

On 31-Jul-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| OK, I transplanted this into the release-3-0-x repo
| <http://hg.tw-math.de/release-3-0-x/>

OK, now that this is available, I will keep a local copy of this
archive on my system now, and strip the release-3-0-x branch from the
main development archive that I use.

| I'll start managing release-3-2-x as soon as John tags a suitable
| initial revision in the main archive (which was his suggestion).

OK.  I assume the release-3-2-x branch will just start as a clone of
the main development archive at the point when there is a 3.2.0
release, or perhaps we would decide to create the release branch
slightly before the actual release, then just merge changes for the
release in that archive, possibly also copying them to other branches
as well (main, release-3-0-x, wherever appropriate).

| btw, I did this by first updating my repo (highegg) and then using "hg
| transplant" to get the changeset into release-3-0-x. Since I intend to
| use the highegg repo for other stuff, it seems I could use a "pristine
| clone" repo. (I could, of course, transplant directly from web, but
| working with local repo is more convenient). I think that Michael and
| Shai also used a local clone of John's main repo for the graphics
| development. Perhaps there could be one for everyone?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "one for everyone".

| We would all need to be able to do "hg pull" in the repo, however.

I don't follow this either.  Can you explain in more detail what sort
of layout of archives you are proposing?  The way I look at it,
archives on the web are usually just there for public access.  For
example, I don't actually work directly with the one that I make
publicly available.  Instead, I work on some collection of archives on
my local system, then push changes to the public archive when they are
ready for others to see.  So the public archive is push only for me
and pull/clone only for others.  Are you proposing some other way of
working with the public archives like the one you now have for the
release-3-0-x branch?

Thanks,

jwe