Should we use subrepos ourselves?

Steve Borho steve at borho.org
Wed Aug 18 10:47:35 CDT 2010


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Colin Caughie
<c.caughie at indigovision.com> wrote:
>> -----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 want to use subrepos for thg-winbuild, and perhaps thg itself (the
shell extension C++ code could/should be split off).  But I would
really like read-only subrepos before I do the former.

-- 
Steve Borho


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