[PATCH] walkrepo: recurse only if ** in [paths] or [collections]

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 09:44 +0100, Ben wrote:
> [Adding CC to the list as it seems to have been forgotten]
> 
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 23:42, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> > Thanks for working on this! I have some comments below.
> >
> > On 08/12/2008 22:21, Benoit Allard wrote:
> >>
> >> So the behavior is as follow:
> >> collections: recursive discovery
> >
> > I think this should be non-recursive, as before.
> 
> We're having a political issue there as the release note for 1.1 is
> mentioning recursive collections. As for now, path = '*' or '**' are
> behaving recursively, the former could be considered as s bug and
> corrected into flat discovery. But I'm afraid we'll have to keep the
> CompatibilityRules on collections.

CompatibilityRules doesn't apply to things that themselves break
CompatibilityRules. hgweb is now taking 5 to 30 seconds just to start
for some users when it used to be fast. In other words, hgweb is broken.

We need to return to 1.0 behavior *as soon as possible*. We can add **
for recursion after.

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