subrepo grand plan

[Martin Geisler]

"Dominik Psenner" <dpsenner at gmail.com> writes:

> d) make commit subrepo aware
>
> This may sound silly, but as far as I understood subrepositories, a parent
> repository tracks subsets of its subrepository changeset hashes. Shouldn't
> commit to a parent repo then behave like this?
>
> Assuming to have following repositories:
>
> P := parent repo
> A := subrepo A
> B := subrepo B
>
> A commit to the parent repository P executes:
>
> hg commit A # commit file changes
> hg commit B # commit file changes
> cat tip(A) > .hgsubstate
> cat tip(B) >> .hgsubstate
> hg commit P # commit new head with valid hash subset and file changes

That is how subrepositories work today :)

-- 
Martin Geisler

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