Concatenating changesets

[John D. Mitchell]

On Dec 14, 2007 10:38 AM,  <blr at robertsr.us> wrote:
> I really like the idea of logically mapping changesets to defect
> fixes or features.  But I also like to commit early and often in
> my own working repository.  I've tried the "Concatenating
> multiple changeset into one changeset" from the Tips and
> Tricks (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/TipsAndTricks),
> but it has a couple of problems.
>
> Most importantly, the final clone takes just over a minute with
> my code base.  That makes our old CVS faster in most cases.

This is for a local clone?  How big is your repo?

> Is combining changesets a bad idea (amd I still thinking in CVS),
> or are there other, faster ways to do this with hg?

I do this all the time and haven't run into this taking that long.
Though, I'm not running against ginormous repos, either.

John