A thought on subrepos

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 22:41 +0200, Patrick Mézard wrote:
> Le 14/04/11 22:00, Matt Mackall a écrit :
> > It seems many projects with subrepos are structured like:
> > 
> > app/ <- main repo
> >  lib/ <- a subrepo
> > 
> > This is perhaps the most obvious way to do things, but is not really
> > ideal. A better way is:
> > 
> > build/ <- main repo
> >  app/ <- subrepo
> >  lib/ <- subrepo
> > 
> > For starters, this does away with most of the "I didn't mean to
> > recursively commit" issues as commits at the top-level will be much less
> > common.
> 
> Why? Am I supposed to work in app/ in this model or ?

Generally, you'll either want to commit in app/ or lib/, and only in
build/ when you've got "synchronization points" - dependencies between
app and lib, releases, etc.

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