688636 - ssh hg.mozilla.org clone interactive iface does not provide option to choose public repo for cloning

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

ssh hg.mozilla.org clone mozilla-release-8.0
Making repo mozilla-release-8.0 for [e-mail].
This repo will appear as hg.mozilla.org/users/romaxa_gmail.com/mozilla-release-8.0.
If you need a top level repo, please quit now and file a bug for IT to create one for you.

0) Exit.
1) yes.
2) no.

Proceed? 1
You can clone an existing public repo or a users private repo.
You can also create an empty repository.

0) Exit.
1) Clone a public repository.
2) Clone a private repository.
3) Create an empty repository.

Source repository: 1
About to create an empty repository at /users/romaxa_gmail.com/mozilla-release-8.0

0) Exit.
1) yes.
2) no.

Comment 1

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

What happens when you select 1 at the last prompt?

Comment 2

[Ian Melven :imelven]

(In reply to Shyam Mani [:fox2mike] from comment #1)
> What happens when you select 1 at the last prompt?

you get an empty repository. which you can then pull m-c to and push to your user repo (without merging or updating), so there's a workaround.

Comment 3

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

pushing mozilla-repo clone into that repo, will take ages, and in 95% cases fail with timeout :(

Comment 4

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

(In reply to Shyam Mani [:fox2mike] from comment #1)
> What happens when you select 1 at the last prompt?

Nothing, empty repo created, and I need to do manual pull/push which endup with problem in comment 3

Comment 5

[Malini Das [:mdas] - Away, not checking bugmail]

I'm in the same boat, except I don't get timeouts, I get HTTP 413 since the request is enormous:

abort: HTTP Error 413: Request Entity Too Large

Is there another way to clone a large database other than pull/push?

Comment 6

[Malini Das [:mdas] - Away, not checking bugmail]

I received the error message in comment 5 by trying to push to a repo without ssl (sorry, my mistake), so you can discard the above comment. I was able to push the cloned repo without a timeout.

Comment 7

[Andreas Gal :gal]

I just ran into the same problem. I can't clone a public repository into a user repository. This was filed a month ago. This is a critical part of our work flow? Can we please fix it?

maui:~ gal$ ssh "[e-mail]"@hg.mozilla.org clone ieframe
Making repo ieframe for [e-mail].
This repo will appear as hg.mozilla.org/users/agal_mozilla.com/ieframe.
If you need a top level repo, please quit now and file a bug for IT to create one for you.

0) Exit.
1) yes.
2) no.

Proceed? 1
You can clone an existing public repo or a users private repo.
You can also create an empty repository.

0) Exit.
1) Clone a public repository.
2) Clone a private repository.
3) Create an empty repository.

Source repository: 1
About to create an empty repository at /users/agal_mozilla.com/ieframe

0) Exit.
1) yes.
2) no.

Proceed? 2
Fixing permissions, don't interrupt.
maui:~ gal$ ssh "[e-mail]"@hg.mozilla.org clone ieframe
Making repo ieframe for [e-mail].
This repo will appear as hg.mozilla.org/users/agal_mozilla.com/ieframe.
If you need a top level repo, please quit now and file a bug for IT to create one for you.

0) Exit.
1) yes.
2) no.

Proceed? 1
You can clone an existing public repo or a users private repo.
You can also create an empty repository.

0) Exit.
1) Clone a public repository.
2) Clone a private repository.
3) Create an empty repository.

Source repository: 1
About to create an empty repository at /users/agal_mozilla.com/ieframe

0) Exit.
1) yes.
2) no.

Proceed? 1
Fixing permissions, don't interrupt.

Comment 9

[Corey Shields [:cshields]]

this feature (albeit a broken one) is a custom, undocumented hack that someone put on our hg infrastructure long ago.  We are looking for it to try and figure it out and fix it but this is going to take some time.

in the meantime, thanks for your patience.

Comment 10

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Here's a workaround (from what we use for doing test releases in RelEng):
  ssh hg.mozilla.org clone <destination> <source>

eg comment #0 becomes
  ssh hg.mozilla.org clone mozilla-release-8.0 releases/mozilla-release

Comment 11

[Rob Tucker [:rtucker]]

After digging through the code and talking with fox2mike, it appears as though the proper usage is what nthomas describes.

Do we have more usage examples that we are 100% confident used to work but no longer do?

ssh "[e-mail]"@hg.mozilla.org clone ieframe creates an empty repository because a source repo to hg clone is not known.

Comment 12

[Ian Melven :imelven]

(In reply to Rob Tucker [:rtucker] from comment #11)
> After digging through the code and talking with fox2mike, it appears as
> though the proper usage is what nthomas describes.
> 
> Do we have more usage examples that we are 100% confident used to work but
> no longer do?
> 
> ssh "[e-mail]"@hg.mozilla.org clone ieframe creates an empty
> repository because a source repo to hg clone is not known.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Creating_Mercurial_User_Repositories#Creating_a_Repository
tells people to use the ssh hg.mozilla.org clone <new repo> syntax
and says they will end up encountering the interactive script that will 
allow them to select what repo to clone.

Comment 13

[Rob Tucker [:rtucker]]

Ian,
Great I'll start there

To confirm:
The expected action is that after:
You can clone an existing public repo or a users private repo.
You can also create an empty repository.

0) Exit.
1) Clone a public repository.
2) Clone a private repository.
3) Create an empty repository.

Source repository: 1

It should give you a list of available repositories and you can then select the repo that you want to clone from the list, and then it will get cloned the same way it does with this syntax:

ssh hg.mozilla.org clone mozilla-release-8.0 releases/mozilla-release

Comment 14

[Ian Melven :imelven]

(In reply to Rob Tucker [:rtucker] from comment #13)
> To confirm:
> The expected action is that after:
> You can clone an existing public repo or a users private repo.
> You can also create an empty repository.

> It should give you a list of available repositories and you can then select
> the repo that you want to clone from the list, and then it will get cloned
> the same way it does with this syntax:
> 
> ssh hg.mozilla.org clone mozilla-release-8.0 releases/mozilla-release

that's certainly what i was expecting :) although i haven't seen it work since i tried making a user repo for the first time after it was no longer working.

Comment 15

[Rob Tucker [:rtucker]]

Can you please take a look again. I never used this previously, so I don't really have a baseline to compare to, but I *think* I've fixed this. If you could confirm that would be great!

Comment 16

[Ian Melven :imelven]

(In reply to Rob Tucker [:rtucker] from comment #15)
> Can you please take a look again. I never used this previously, so I don't
> really have a baseline to compare to, but I *think* I've fixed this. If you
> could confirm that would be great!

i got the interactive menu this time and picked mozilla-central. it's still cloning but it looks like it's working, will update when/if it finishes successfully.

Comment 17

[Rob Tucker [:rtucker]]

Ian(In reply to Ian Melven :imelven from comment #16)
> (In reply to Rob Tucker [:rtucker] from comment #15)
> > Can you please take a look again. I never used this previously, so I don't
> > really have a baseline to compare to, but I *think* I've fixed this. If you
> > could confirm that would be great!
> 
> i got the interactive menu this time and picked mozilla-central. it's still
> cloning but it looks like it's working, will update when/if it finishes
> successfully.

I picked a repo called penelope which cloned really quickly and is now visible here:
http://hg.mozilla.org/users/rtucker_mozilla.com/

I believe it is the expected behavior

Comment 18

[Ian Melven :imelven]

mine finally finished but timed out 

Pick a source repo: 3
About to clone /mozilla-central to /users/imelven_mozilla.com/iframe_sandbox

0) Exit.
1) yes.
2) no.

Proceed? 1
Please do not interrupt this operation.
Please wait.  Cloning /mozilla-central to /users/imelven_mozilla.com/iframe_sand
box
Read from remote host hg.mozilla.org: Connection reset by peer

but the repo is there and superficially looks ok.

thanks for fixing this up :)

Comment 19

[Rob Tucker [:rtucker]]

Am I ok to Resolve/Fix this one?

Comment 20

[Rob Tucker [:rtucker]]

I'm gonna go ahead and R/F this. Please feel free to reopen if you see any more issues with this. Thanks.