Subrepository remapping plan

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Fri Jul 23 14:34:48 CDT 2010


On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 13:38 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> 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.
> 
> I also believe the problems and the solution is generic enough that it
> should apply to everybody who uses subrepos.

I mostly like it, though I think you ought to consider using regexes or
some similarly powerful replacement scheme.

I also think that the pushkey bits should be done in a phase two.

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