With this change, "hg clone" looks like this:
% hg clone http://example.com/repo/big big
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added XXX changesets with XXX changes to XXX files
updating working directory
XXX files updated, XXX files merged, XXX files removed, XXX files unresolved
So the user sees
% hg clone http://example.com/repo/big big
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added XXX changesets with XXX changes to XXX files
updating working directory
while Mercurial is writing to disk to populate the working directory
With this change, "hg clone" looks like this:
% hg clone big big-work
updating working directory
XXX files updated, XXX files merged, XXX files removed, XXX files unresolved
The error message at startup when the address/port could not be bound
was confusing:
hg serve
abort: cannot start server: Address already in use
Be more explicit:
$ hg serve -a localhost
abort: cannot start server at 'localhost:8000': Address already in use
Also be more explicit on success, showing hostname and ip address/port:
$ hg -v serve -a localhost -p 80
listening at http://localhost/ (127.0.0.1:80)
We are careful to handle a missconfigured machine whose hostname does not
resolve, falling back to the address given at the command line.
Remove a dead-code error message.
On windows, a socket with the SO_REUSEADDR option set is able to bind to
any port, even if there's already an active socket listening on it.
test-http: check server address cannot be reused.
existing clone code uses pull to get changes from remote repo. is very
slow, uses lots of memory and cpu.
new clone code has server write file data straight to client, client
writes file data straight to disk. memory and cpu used are very low,
clone is much faster over lan.
new client can still clone with pull, can still clone from older servers.
new server can still serve older clients.