A thought on subrepos

[Benoît Allard]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> 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.
>

This is also common practice in the android world. This is the way the 
`repo` tool [1] works. The root repository only has a couple of manifest 
xml file [2] comparable with the .hgsubstate file.

Regards
Benoit

[1] http://source.android.com/source/version-control.html
[2] 
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/manifest.git;a=blob;f=3.0-base.xml;h=38d6e3011f4e3e1fab95b57f0cf3ca013709558a;hb=HEAD
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