Should we use subrepos ourselves?

[Colin Caughie]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mercurial-devel-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-devel-
> bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of Matt Mackall
> Sent: 18 August 2010 15:57
> To: Martin Geisler
> Cc: Mercurial Development List
> Subject: Re: Should we use subrepos ourselves?
>
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 16:51 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I had a meeting with my customer today where we dicussed subrepos
> (as
> > usual) and half-joking, they suggested that we try using them
> ourselves
> > for the Mercurial repository...
>
> It might indeed help us improve subrepos. On the other hand, it's
> definitely not a good use case for them and other people might
> decide to
> follow our bad example.

What about the TortoiseHg project? Seems like making hg a subrepo of TortoiseHg would be a good use case, and could result in improved subrepo support in both TortoiseHg and Mercurial itself.

I'm not sure how that dependency is managed at the moment though.

Colin


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