Svn subrepo status support

[Srećko Jurić-Kavelj]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at lazybytes.net> wrote:
> This patch was submitted long before we added the --subrepos flag to
> status and many other commands. It is also quite simple since it just
> prints the 'svn status' output -- I would expect 'hg status -S' to parse
> and reformat the output to match the normal Mercurial output, or at
> least to prefix the lines with the subrepository path.
>
> --
> Martin Geisler
>
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I realize that that patch was submitted long time ago. I was just
wondering is there any special reason that there is still no status
reporting for Subversion subrepo? Also, there is no diff support
either for Subversion or git. I'm planning on using Mercurial for
collaborative writing of some documents in LaTeX, and I figured I
could use SVN subrepository to manage binary files (images, build
results, ...). Not having status for the SVN subrepo would confuse
other users that don't have much experience with VCS (in this use-case
example).

Before SVN subrepository idea, i considered some of binary files
extensions. Main requirement would be that they play well with
TortoiseHg (because of other users). It seems that snap is most
plausible choice, but it doesn't work jet with newest
Mercurial/TortoiseHg. Also, there are some new implementations for big
binary files handling
(http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2010-September/035146.html).
Therefore, I'd like to postpone my choice for binary file handling
extension, or use something proven/stable, like SVN subrepository.

Thanks.