Subrepository remapping plan

Martin Geisler mg at aragost.com
Tue Aug 10 08:08:06 CDT 2010


Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 13:38, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
>> I've made a wiki page that describes what I'm planning on implementing
>> for remapping URLs in the .hgsub file:
>>
>>  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/SubrepoRemappingPlan
>>
>> Please take a look and tell me if you think this will solve your
>> problems. The plan comes from the company that has hired me to
>> implement this, and we believe it will solve their problems.
>
> Nice, that provides a good overview.
>
> I'm missing two things from this page:
>
> - Why do we need the separate subpaths file? If that's because we
> don't consider hgrcs writable and we want pushkey-based distribution,
> that's fine, but it would be nice to have stated explicitly (it could
> also help to reorder so that the existence of the subpaths file is
> more clearly related to the distribution section).

Thanks for the suggestion, I've updated the wiki page to make this more
clear.

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