Should we use subrepos ourselves?

[Steve Borho]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Patrick Mézard <pmezard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 18/08/10 17:59, Steve Borho a écrit :
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Patrick Mézard <pmezard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Le 18/08/10 17:47, Steve Borho a écrit :
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Read-only like "fail on commit" ?
>>
>> Read-only, as-in, skip these when you push the main repo
>
> What's the rationale?
> You modify them but don't want to push back?
> You don't modify them but have problem when pushing back nonetheless (auth issues blocking changes checking come to mind) ?

I never modify subrepos of thg-winbuild; I'm just collecting the repos
together to build installers.  And I don't want my pushes to
thg-winbuild to fail if, for example, the perfarce repo is temporarily
unreachable.  I also don't want my pushes to take tens of minutes if
bitbucket is lagging.

-- 
Steve Borho