subrepo grand plan
Patrick Mézard
pmezard at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 16:59:10 CDT 2011
Le 19/10/11 22:21, Matt Mackall a écrit :
> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 21:09 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
>> Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 09:42 +0000, David.Sedlock at lantiq.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> commitsubrepos.
>>>>
>>>> This is the option we wanted Martin to use so we could get consistent
>>>> behavior of commit/status/diff.
>>>>
>>>> The existence of this option cannot be consistent with your statement
>>>> "We absolutely cannot have a naked 'hg commit' commit everything but
>>>> subrepos."
>>>
>>> You haven't been listening carefully enough. There are THREE choices:
>>>
>>> 1) the current default behavior
>>> 'a naked commit ... recurses'
>>> 2) Patrick's commitsubrepos=False behavior
>>> 'a naked commit ... aborts if subrepos are modified'
>>> 3) the thing that everyone asks for (commit only the main repo)
>>> 'a naked commit ... commits everything but subrepos'
>>
>> I just realized that there might have been some confusion here!
>>
>> The option I proposed is like *option 2*, not option 3. In other words,
>> it does not allow you to commit the main repo alone. The recursesubrepos
>> does two things:
>>
>> 1) it sets commitsubrepos = recursesubrepos for commit
>> 2) it sets opts['subrepos'] = recursesubrepos for status and diff
>>
>> That's all -- the goal is to let the user set recursesubrepos=False and
>> get consistency between the commands as in this table:
>>
>> If ui.recursesubrepos is set to a boolean B, then we have:
>>
>> | recurses | recurses
>> | by default | with --subrepos
>> --------+------------+----------------
>> commit: | B | True
>> status: | B | True
>> diff: | B | True
>>
>> The --subrepos flag is new for commit, it lets the user override the
>> recursesubrepos option on the command line when needed.
>>
>> I'm sorry if my explanation was confusing in the original patch:
>>
>> http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2011-September/034354.html
>
> Ok, you're right. I managed to misread both your description AND your
> code the last time around. Thanks for having patience with me.
>
> But I'm still not super-excited about this. Let me lay out some related
> options for comparison:
>
> a) Work towards having commit/status/diff consistent AND recursive by
> default
> b) Make commitsubrepos False by default
> c) Add your recursesubrepos option, None by default
>
> My favorite is (a) because all work here is forward progress towards
> having subrepos more uniformly integrated. This will make subrepos
> better for everyone with no config settings needed. I think the big
> hurdle here (getting these three commands consistent +
> add/forget/remove) is really not that hard given the existing groundwork
> you've set in.
>
> I ought to have done (b) to start with or very early on, but the option
> never occurred to me. Now I frankly think it's half a step backwards.
> It'll solve a big issue for new users (great), but may upset some
> existing users (which usually trumps). Given that we've got four months
> until the next release this could possibly be in, I'd rather see us
> hurry up and do (a).
Another point for (b) is that by minimizing interactions with subrepos, like not diffing subrepos by default, commands remain fast. Even with 2 or 3 subrepos, I am afraid things could get slower if you have to run one svn diff command per subrepo everytime you run hg diff, especially on Windows. I still have a hack to make hgsubversion svnsubrepo use svn bindings if available for status/_wcrevs() calls, which helped with rebase IIRC.
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Patrick Mézard
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