[PATCH] subrepo: look for local pull source first

[Martin Geisler]

Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:

> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 11:50 -0500, Kevin Bullock wrote:
>> > You can solve this with the standard share extension on the server. What
>> > it does is simple: it behaves as if the .hg folders were symlinked. We
>> > symlink the two clones of Component-X back to the top-level Component-X
>> > repository. So when Alice does
>> > 
>> >  $ cd Project-A/lib/X
>> >  $ hg push http://server/Component-X
>> > 
>> > then the changesets show up instantaniously in all three Component-X
>> > clones on the server. In particular, when Bob does
>> > 
>> >  $ cd Project-B/lib/X
>> >  $ hg pull # no special path
>> > 
>> > then he gets the changesets Alice just pushed.
>> 
>> It can also be done using *actual* symlinks on the server, linking the
>> shared component repos into their appropriate relative locations in
>> the project repos. This is how I have my 'canonical' repositories set
>> up.
>
> And it can also be done with hgweb mappings.

Oh... right, that is a new idea that I hadn't thought about -- thanks!

I think they will like this idea since it means that there is really
just a single repository on the server. I'll pass it along...

-- 
Martin Geisler

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