I had interest in being able to see plan 9 source at bitbucket.org. Part of the driver was my continuing inability to get replica to work well at home, and part just a need to tinker :-)
So, I created an empty repo at bitbucket.org, http://bitbucket.org/rminnich/sysfromiso/overview and then did the usual hg clone -e '/bin/openssh/ssh -2' ssh://h...@bitbucket.org/rminnich/sysfromiso At this point on Plan 9 I have a directory, sysfromiso, that is empty save for a .hg Now on linux or other systems, you copy a bunch of directories in there, hg add them, and away you go. Plan 9 is more interesting: hget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.bz2>/tmp/iso.bz2 rc -c 'cd /tmp; bunzip2 iso.bz2' 9660srv -f /tmp/iso iso mount /srv/iso /n/iso now I've got the sources over there in /n/iso. What's next? Simple: cd sysfromiso bind -a /n/iso . And then add some trees: hg add sys/src then hg commit hg push -e '/bin/openssh/ssh -2' And I've got a starting point. What's interesting is that the directory always looks empty until I do the bind: term% ls sysfromiso sysfromiso/.hg term% So the script to continue updating the repo is pretty simple: #!/bin/rc hget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.bz2>/tmp/iso.bz2 rc -c 'cd /tmp; bunzip2 iso.bz2' 9660srv -f /tmp/iso iso mount /srv/iso /n/iso ape/psh cd sysfromiso bind -b /n/iso . x=`date` hg commit -m "$x" hg push -e '/bin/openssh/ssh -2' (note I need ape/psh when I use ssh for pushes -- quoting rules issue) This can be run from cron -- once you get through the ssh issues I mentioned in the earlier note. Result is an hg repo on bitbucket.org that I can get to from anywhere, and I can watch as Geoff continues to beat on the kw port :-) More importantly, it's going to be easier for me to bisect and find problems when I build from kernel source, which is very handy in my case. The web interface of bitbucket gives me a pretty reasonable way to compare different revs. I'm offering this note in the event others want to use this interface and repo. ron
